... The State Banquet to the delegates assembled In London for the first meetings of the United Nations General Assembly took place in St. James's Palace in two apartments which are reached by entry through the St. James's Gate, the towers and clock of which are a familiar sight to those passing up and down St. James's Street. Entry is through the archway of the gateway admitting at once to the ...

... Tn a room hung with rich crimson tapestry and warmed by blazing log fires in Tudor grates, eighty-six guests sat down to dinner with the King at St James's Palace on the night of January 9. Fifty-one of the guests were delegates to the General Assembly of U.N.O., which opened its delibera tions on the following day at the Central Hall, Westminster. The State Banquet three courses of which were ...

... AN AMERICAN AIRFIELD IN THE BERMUDAS An overhead view showing how the U.S. engineers built a landing-ground on the beaches and a narrow peninsula of sand, providing vital runways in the face of immense difficulties. These pictures of Am rican bases on and around the Atlantic are the first to be released since the close of th war CUT FROM THE VIRGIN FOREST Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British ...

... British policy with regard to Egypt is clear. Communications must be safeguarded friendship must be maintained with the Egyptian Govern ment and the welfare of the Sudanese peoples must always be studied whatever else is decided. With these considerations in mind, Lord Stansgate and his British delegation arrived recently in Egypt in order to discuss the withdrawal of the British forces and ...

... The lessons of war inevitably lead to radical changes in warship design, and H.M.S. Vanguard, Britain's newest and biggest battleship, is essen tially a ship designed as a result of wartime experience. Her flared bow and high fore- deck are two features which would make her easy to identify in any company, and although the same features do appear in the King George V class, they are present in ...

... CHURCHMEN FORGATHER IN THE CITY OF LONDON 7 The scene in the seventeenth-century hall of the Apothecaries Society in Blackfriars Lane as the Archbishop of Canterbury read the King's reply to a loyal address presented by the Convocation. Subsequently the Upper and Lower Houses of the Convocation separated to deal with their particular business, and in the Upper House the limelight was focused ...

... RHnnni (^)n the map the Isles of Contentment are at 58 cleg. North, 7 cleg. West. That seems a cold and barren spot not a likely place for contentment. But the people s happiness springs from a deep sense of security, and of independence. The 80,000 inhabitants on the Isles of Contentment are hard-working and proud, for those who live there are the people of Lewis, of Harris and of Uist, in ...

... The King was present at the Oval last week for the one-day match in aid of Surrey Cricket Club's Centenary Year appeal for funds, and, in company with an immense crowd, he watched Surrey play a team styled Old £ngland. Every member of the Old England team, except Brooks, the former Surrey wicket-keeper, has at some time played for England, and together with the umpires, Hobbs and Strudwick, ...

... THE FIGHTING PLANES ARE BEING DESTROYED-- THE AIRFIELD AT LANDSBERG, IN BAVARIA, WHERE 5,000 FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS ARE BEING BLOWN UP How the Americans are disposing of their surplus machines, each receiving a charge of 20 lbs. of T.N.T. LANDSBERG is only one of many airfields in occupied Germany where the Americans are disposing of their surplus war planes rather than run the expense of ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Stalin's Faith in U.N.O.-- Stalin has openly expressed his con fidence in U.N.O.'s power, under certain conditions, to keep the peace of the world. I am reminded of a passage from Treasure Island, with Stalin in the role of Squire Trelawny, Britain and America playing the doctor and the captain. No one denies that there has been too much talking. In modern ...

... THERE was something rather funny about a Customs official telling us that as travel opens up again, and if scarcity and high taxation are combined with currency depreciations abroad, we shall have all the incentives to smuggling. What in the name of sense have we been having for the past year or so, and will the troops laugh at the notion that we must wait upon civilian travel for a rebirth ...

... THE LAUNCH OF THE AIRCRAFT-CARRIER EAGLE --THE DRAMATIC MOMENT AS THE NEW WARSHIP ENTERED THE MUSGRAVE CHANNEL AFTER BEING LAUNCHED AT BELFAST BY PRINCESS ELIZABETH In the presence of a vast concourse of shipyard workers and other spectators, the Princess christened the ship with a bottle of Empire wine, and this was the signal for the automatic release of the hydraulic triggers holding the ...