... ■Thursday I And they took counsel to- I gether that they might take I Jesus by subtility, and kill him. But they said, not I during the feast lest a tumult I arise among the people.' St. Matthew XXVI, 5. I AND they came unto a place which was named g Gethsemane. -St. Mark XIV, 32. ■Friday And the whole company of I them arose up, and brought him before Pilate. And they began to accuse him ...

... THE VIRGIN AND ST. JOHN A sixteenth-century sculptural work in boxwood from the Netherlands shown in the Victoria and Albert Museum's Exhibition, Style in Sculpture, which is now being held in the main entrance-hall of the Museum and is attracting much admiring attention. This piece belongs to the period when Gothic art was giving way to the ideas of the Renaissance, and a freer and more ...

... Bodies of elegance and faultless craftsmanship built individually to customers' exact requirements by coach- builders of more than a century's experience and con tinuous service to the Royal House. A wide range of Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Bentley and other makes, in normal times, will be on view in our famous St. James's Street Showrooms. In the meantime we can offer a fine selection of pre-war ...

... Highland Oueen GRAND LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY BilP-- I Jainoui Q U E E N S bij jainaui ^illaSlctcS MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS by Jean le Court (National Portrait Gallery) by 0 Ilia On those proud features royalty has set its stamp, indefinable, yet unmistakable to any eye. And in Highland Queen Grand Liqueur there is a blend of choice flavours which establishes this as the sovereign of all fine ...

... i, New Oxford Strf.et, W.C.i. Foreign Policy.-- Mr. Bevin is certainly not an orator. In England in the last two centuries we have been perhaps too prone to connect oratory with statesmanship, and ac cordingly the reputation of statesman ship has suffered. It has come to mean vox et prœterea nihil, a nicely balanced formula or two, signifying nothing. It 's the brass tacks, not the gilt ...

... KEEPING A CHECK ON HAMBURG'S BLACK MARKET Belgians attached to the British military police checking identity papers and searching suspects in the streets of the city. Since the imposition of the new ration scale in Germany, Black Market operations have increased markedly, and food off the ration is now selling at fantastic prices. Looting of food delivery vans and railway trucks has occurred ...

... i nmmm B 1 L Y I rri L'J IFt 1 1 kM fc'i II I I ViliJi LI/ i ■MnritMiflm THE TARGET SHIPS ASSEMBLE AT PEARL HARBOUR Vessels, which will form part of the guinea-pig fleet in the coming atom bomb tests, gathered together at America's mid-Pacific base before leaving for Bikini Atoll, where the tests will take place, probably in June n ^xaHMVKcayF ■mKm- t i A LAST LOOK ON A HALLOWED SPOT Young ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Freedom Party.-- Political prophets are more often fool's-capped than laurel-crowned, alive or dead. A man cannot read the memoirs and biographies covering the last 150 years without reaching the conclusion that the political cat is a most unexpected jumper and the politician rarely capable of seeing beyond the tip of his nose. To-day the bulk of the Socialist ...

... T'he decision to move the Royal Observatory from Greenwich to Hurstmonceaux Castle, in the heart of rural Sussex, occasions no surprise, as it stands to reason that the smoke ascending from the industrialised area around Greenwich has a markedly serious effect upu:i atmospheric transparency, and this, in turn, affects the accuracy of astronomical observations and the taking of photographic ...

... FIELD-MARSHAL LORD ALEXANDER WEARS HIS NEW UNIFORM The new Governor-General of Canada and his wife at the entrance to the Peace Tower, Ottawa, where they witnessed a march-past in honour of their arrival. Lord Alexander wore a top hat and morning coat in place of service dress, striking a somewhat unfamiliar note. His arrival in Canada has been greeted with much enthusiasm, and it is felt that ...

... Gouth Africa may well be proud of the part she played in the sea war against the Axis Powers. During those anxious years her ports hummed with feverish activity and, with the virtual closing of the Mediterranean to shipping. Cape Town regained the important position she once occupied as The Tavern of the Seas, while Durban's part as clearing-base for Middle East operations cannot be ...

... Hindu rule of -the whole vast sub-continent of India, with jj 100,000,000 Muslims in the minority, or Hindu rule in some j States and Muslim rule in others. This is the broad issue i with which India is faced, the issue of Hindustan and Pakistan. In the accompanying pictures are shown Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah, three of the most outstanding protagonists in this great v political drama, during ...