... DREAD ENCOUNTER IN THE VILLAGE CHURCHYARD Magwitch (Finlay Currie), the runaway convict, frightens Pip (Anthony Wager), the village blacksmith's young friend, ordering him to bring him some food to eat and a file with which to remove his fetters. One of the opening scenes from the Cineguild film Great Expectations PIP LIYES IN MISERY That 's the way with this boy answer him one question and he ...

... PRINCE OF SPENDTHRIFTS (7).-- The truth emerges very plainly indeed. Corruption in all matters relating to the Turf had reached a point where chicanery could no longer be countered by chicanery, and a root-and-branch purge was necessary. For decades the vicious circle had widened and intensified the trouble, and men like Bentinck and Rous were just beginning to realise that the ethical founda ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Post-War History Repeats Itself.-- For God's sake do not drag me into another war! I am worn down and worn out, with crusa ding and defending Europe and de fending mankind; I must think a little of myself. I am sorry for the Spaniards-- I am sorry for the Greeks-- I deplore the fate of the Jews; the people of the Sandwich Islands are groaning under the most ...

... After the tumult of preceding weeks, in which Calcutta was the scene of bitter racial feuds, of bloodshed, arson and pillage, the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr provided a lull in the political storm, and for one day the Muslim community turned to prayer and thanksgiving. In the political sphere the Muslim Leaguers, and their leader, Mr. Jinnah, remained aloof from the new Interim Government ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Clear the Decks.-- Mr. Alex ander appropriately used a nautical phrase in his appeal to the wrangling Allies to cut the squabbling and begin to make the peace. It is noticeable in these sombre weeks of schoolboy tu quoque and mud-slinging in Paris how ardently the cheers of the majority have greeted every appeal for ending suspicion and recrimina tion, and how ...

... Touring the war, as the result of a survey by the U.S. War Pro duction Board, it was considered that there was danger of a serious drain on electricity supply in the Ohio, Mississippi and Great Lakes districts of the United States. It was therefore decided to build a number of floating power plants, which could be towed to places where additional current was urgently required. Four of these ...

... 1 .HiMfrfir.fT- t i, „.r When the American troops entered Tokyo in August of last year, it was found that large parts of the capital had been razed to the ground by fire-bombs, and that other parts had suffered from high-explosives. One wing of the Emperor's Palace was also damaged, and a number of flimsy structures in the grounds of the vast enclosure had disappeared the grounds, however, ...

... P\r. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Dictator of Portugal, and known as Portugal's strong man, has been responsible for that country's domestic administration and foreign policy for many years. The son of a Portuguese farmer, he directed the nation's finances in the early stages of the military dictatorship and took over the Premiership in 1933. For several years he also held the portfolios of ...

... mmmm EHSg 81ibhw 8^8 HWT¥TVVV VH' uiyisiin Immense enthusiasm greeted I the British liberation of I Malaya in 1945 but since I then conditions have deteri- I orated largely as a result of I food and transport shortage. In Singapore the Malayan Communist Party has been active, and in a recent affray with the police one man was shot and nineteen injured. I Meanwhile, the British I Government has ...

... On left Spring-cleaning began at Waterloo and Charing Cross underground stations last week, two gangs of fifteen men being employed during the small hours of each morning to clean the paintwork and carry out redistempering. As more labour becomes available, further gangs will start to work, and it is hoped that Trafalgar Square, Oxford Circus, Bond Street, Strand, St. James's Park, and ...

... In Room 41 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where Londoners, drawn by shrewd publicity and curiosity, recently flocked to gaze in bewilderment on the works of Picasso and Matisse, there is now being held an exhibition infinitely more to the public taste. It is an exhibition of the Museum's rich collection of the works of John Constable, and it constitutes a new tribute to an artist whose ...

... HThe creation of thirty- two new Cardinals at the same time, an event without precedent in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, and one that places the governance of the Church on a much more international basis, was the occasion for scenes of im pressive ceremonial at the Vatican Palace and in St. Peter's. At every opportunity Pope Pius mingled freely among his new Cardinals, and, as one ...