... i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. In Paris.-- In modern politics and diplomacy we have grown used to striking water in barren ground and finding unexpected snags where the going looked easy. So it may be that fruit and harmony will be harvested at the Paris Conference, where one expected at the start nothing but snags and disagreement. (We have been agreeably surprised.) To that Conference came ...

... TlIfTTHU?rTTW7?T Russia, in her search for oil, has been active of recent month both in the Middle East and Hungary, thereby causing a rise u the international temperature and adding to the complication confronting U.N.O. In Persia this quest for oil has been satisfies by the recent agreement between Moscow and Teheran, whereb; Russia will develop the region at the southern end of the Caspian ...

... 1J u ring the Russian occupation of Hungary, the oil-fields, which are very largely American financed, have been operated by the Russians in what is described as a wasteful and destructive fashion, and in the Hun garian-American Oil Com pany's fields it is known that the wells have suffered from a rapid wastage of gas. As a result, General wiinar lvey, united states memDor 01 tne Allied ...

... THE RETURN OF THE STATUES-- last the statues are beginning to come back to London. The pedestals are being shorn of their ugly brick surrounds, and one by one the familiar monuments are appearing in their accustomed places. The equestrian statue of King George III, the work of Matthew Wyatt, once again looks down on Cockspur Street, having returned to London from the wilds of Hertfordshire, ...

... EH ■I shares continued alter baste r, and the market received a further impetus when Sir Ernest Oppen- heimer publicly declared the im portance of the new gold-field in South Africa. It is thought that the mines of the Orange Free State may come in time to rival those of the Witwatersrand, and that a great new city may spring up to the south of Johannesburg. Much depends, of course, on future ...

... AMERICANA News-pictures from the U.S. A K.K.K. REVIVAL IN CALIFORNIA The remains of a fiery cross, symbol of the notorious Ku Klux Klan, which was burnt in the streets of Big Bear, California, as a warning to the intending seller of some property. The symbol was made of pieces of oil-soaked pipe BACK TO DUTY: The Scotland Light- i ship, after being on other duties during j the war, is now in ...

... HE WAYFARER 99 FLYING OVER JERSEY This aircraft brings Croydon Aerodrome within an hour's flight of the Channel Islands, and at the end of this month it inaugurates the new service. When this picture was taken the Wayfarer 99 was arriving at Jersey to participate in the ceremonies on the first anniversary of liberation from German occupation lie Bristol Wayfarer, one of the first of Britain's ...

... 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 ...

... When the United States troopship Georgetown Victory a vessel of 7,600 tons, left Sydney, Australia, she had on board 1,100 British sailors who were returning to Britain for demobilisation. 1 lie Georgetown Victory reached British waters without mishap, but at Killard Point, Strangford Lough, 25 miles south of Belfast, she struck the rocks in the early hours of the morning and, as the tide ...

... VICTORY DAY IN PARIS-- THE BIG FOUR ATTEND THE CEREMONY AT THE ARC DE TRIOMPHE M. Bidault, Mr. Molotov, Mr. Bevin and Mr. Byrnes standing before the tomb of France's Unknown Warrior Last Sunday Paris celebrated the anniversary of victory in Europe with a military parade in the Champs Elysees, a ceremony at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, and by all- night dancing in the ballrooms and in the ...

... RUSSIANS MARCH PAST A Red Army unit passing down the Charlottenburger Chaussee in Berlin on May 9, during the celebration of the first anniversary of VE-Day. Contingents from the armies of the four Allied occupying Powers took part in the parade, and the four military commanders took the salute from a base near the Red Army Monument, which is seen in the background of this picture. In the ...