... TAKING a short-term view, the British public will be affected much more by the vital decision which has to be taken about the B.B.C. this year than by most of the long-range settlements made by U.N.O. For the Charter of the B.B.C., including its broadcasting monopoly, comes up for review this year and will presumably be debated in the House of Commons within the next two months. Is the B.B.C. ...

... Qn November 23, during the fighting in Java, an R.A.F. Dakota transport was forced to land near Batavia. In addition to the crew, there were eighteen Indian soldiers on board. All were attacked by Indonesian insurgents and massacred. The remaining bodies of the murdered crew and passengers were found on December 1 in the jungle town of Berkassi, twelve miles from Batavia. Like their com rades ...

... YY/hen the big German raids were at their peak, it seemed scarcely possible that London's great Cathe dral could survive both fire and explosion. There were seventy de voted members of the Cathedral A.R.P. squad, drawn largely from architects and professional men who had a special appreciation of Wren's masterpiece. Bomb No. 1 fell at the base of the Clock Tower and was eventually located and ...

... On right The recent wintry weather in England has been nothing compared to the normal conditions prevailing on the fishing banks off the Canadian and American coasts. At this time of the year the Atlantic gales rage with fury and the small fishing-vessels return to port laden down with hundreds of tons of ice this has to be hacked away before their cargoes of fish can be unloaded. Each year ...

... A t Sadler's Wells Theatre, in London, British Ballet came into being in January 1931. Plans had been laid five years earlier, in 1926, when the derelict theatre had been bought as an overflow for the Old Vic. This was brought about through the efforts of the late Dame Lilian Baylis. The Carnegie Trust had already made a grant of £14,200 for the site, and further funds for rebuilding were ...

... HE HARRIS TWEED ASSOCIATION LTD. jj r $0 1 hey are the home of H1IERI TWIflfll ■zzsz-fu For generations the making of Harris Iweed has been the pride and chief industry of the :3S5!J> JbSF men and women of these Islands. The matchless texture of Harris Tweed (of virgin Scottish wool), its great durability, its variety of design and colour, continue to find increasing fame c, HiTl IK See the ...

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... Aniroth, a little village of Pembrokeshire, is spoken of in Wales as the doomed village, for it is in danger of being utterly wiped out by the sea. More than 200 yards of sea-wall have been washed away, and the recent gales have almost finished the defences. Only a few feet remain of a road which ran from the village down to the sea. Many villagers have had narrow escapes from the fury of the ...

... It appears that Alsatian dogs are now to a certain degree replacing the famous St. Bernard breed for rescue work in the Swiss Alps. Dogs, demobilised by the Swiss Army, have been taken over by the Swiss Alpine Club and are receiving a refresher course with rescue squads in the work of retrieving victims buried under avalanches. After locating victims by scent, the dogs are trained to assist in ...

... MACDONALD MUIR LTD MACDONALD MUIR LTD jFainoui Queens bu jamaui QUEEN CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK by Sir Thomas Lawrence. (National Portrait Gallery Highland Queen GRAND LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY Q bllacoirruibrbtTtlti (J^ In her veins flowed royal blood, giving her the queenly distinction that commands loyalty. And similarly, in Highland Queen Grand Liqueur there are choice spirits, skilfully blended ...

... I It was only fitting that I Paris should celebrate the I fiftieth anniversary of the cinema, for it was as long ago as 1883 that the Parisian, E. J. Marey, established a studio for investigating the motion of animals by employing batteries of cameras, and seven years later it was he who first saw the full possibilities of the celluloid roll film. To mark the fiftieth anni versary of the first ...

... The kidnapping of children in the Bandoeng area of Indonesia is an aspect of the civil struggle in the Netherlands Indies that has naturally horrified public opinion in Holland, and in large measure hardened Dutch opinion against the Javanese. Actually there has never been a Government in Holland more sympathetic to Indonesian aspirations than the present one but such happenings as the ...