... 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 ...

... rik 1 1 I I r A natural peacetime development of the practice of carrying heavy bomb-loads is to be found in the Speed pak External Cargo Car- rier, which has just been introduced by Lock heed's and is fitted to their large Constellation air-liners. The Speed pak, which can be attached or removed in about two minutes, pro vides valuable additional cargo space in emer gencies without seriously ...

... ■HHBIMHBMBBi Left to right Lord Addison (Secretary of State for the Dominions), Mr. G. Hall (Colonial Secretary), Mr. Walter Nash (Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand). Dr. Evatt (Australian Minister for External Affairs), Mr. J. E. Chifley (Prime Minister of Australia), Mr. Attlee, Mr. Emest Bevin and Mr. J. A. Beasley (Australia's Resident Minister in London). The Conference of Commonwealth ...

... At the beginning of 1946 China knew her first day of peace for seventeen years, and it seemed at long last that the country was on the verge of achieving unity. Agreements were reached between the Communist forces and the supporters ol Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek, and it was decided that China should disband her partisan armies and form a new non-political force. More important still, it ...

... In a recent article in The Sphere details were given of the plans to drill for oil in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Paria, off the coast of Trinidad. Three of the largest British oil companies are financing the attempt, and all the scientific instruments for an under-water geophysical survey have already been assembled. In the accom panying drawings, which further amplify the subject, it ...

... PRESERVING REGENCY ENGLAND-- BRUNSWICK SQUARE, A CELEBRATED PART OF HOVE, WHICH IS NOT TO BE USED AS A CAR PARK AS RECENTLY PROPOSED These are the graceful Regency houses on the west side of the square which residents feared might become a trippers' paradise An appeal against the proposed use as a cark park of Bruns- i wick Square, Hove, which is regarded as a perfect example of Regency ...

... In April, it will be remembered, muti nies took place both at the Detention Barracks at Aidershot and at Northallerton, Yorks, and in both instances the men wrecked the build ings and defied their would-be captors from roof-top vantage points. Eleven of the men allegedly concerned in the Northallerton mutiny were arraigned before a court martial which opened last week in a gymnasium at ...