... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Clear the Decks.-- Mr. Alex ander appropriately used a nautical phrase in his appeal to the wrangling Allies to cut the squabbling and begin to make the peace. It is noticeable in these sombre weeks of schoolboy tu quoque and mud-slinging in Paris how ardently the cheers of the majority have greeted every appeal for ending suspicion and recrimina tion, and how ...

... THE FIRST PARTY OF JEWS ARRIVES IN CYPRUS Men and women coming down the companionway after they had been deported from Haifa. They had attempted to run the gauntlet of the British Naval Patrol, and when their ship was intercepted, they expected, like many thousands before them, to be sent to the Athlit Clearance Camp near Haifa, and to be allowed eventually to enter Palestine. The British ...

... It will necessarily be many months before all the lessons of the Bikini atom bomb tests have been recorded and any form of official pronouncement on the future of warship construction is forth coming but speculation on the subject is widespread, and from France comes the suggestion for the streamlined, blast-proof battle- cruiser illustrated on the right. The almost totally-enclosed fight ing ...

... HONG KONG IN THE THROES OF RECONSTRUCTION-- A FLOOD OF IMMIGRANTS CAUSES OVERCROWDING IN THE COLONY A diagram matic sketch looking across from the island to the port of Kowloon and the leased territories. It appears that since the close of the Pacific War a constant stream of Chinese immigrants has been reaching Hong Kong, with the result that the population of the island has risen from 609 ...

... 1 P or centuries past the people of East Anglia have waged an incessant struggle against the inroads of the sea, and the story of how Dunwich once the proud capital of the area fell away from its ancient dignity is one that must be familiar to many. To-day Dunwich is a mere straggling village, offering no hint of its former size or of its religious and political importance. Harbour, walls, ...

... ACCORDING TO PLAN Mr. Gould, Assistant Keeper of the National Gallery, consulting his wall chart when re-hanging Rubens' masterpiece The Rape of the Sabine Women in the National Gallery. Owing to bomb damage, only two-thirds of the rooms can be used at present, and the re- hanging of these is now in active progress HANGING POUSSIN'S THE ANNUNCIATION A new and important acquisition at the ...

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... * * Gone to the Devil gOMEWHERE within a few yards of where Temple Bar once stood was an ancient tavern bearing the sign of St. Dunstan tweaking the devil's nose. But if the founder wished his house to be known as St. Dunstan's he reckoned without the lawyers in their chambers nearby. The legal wits of the day in need of refreshment used to put placards on their doors Gone to the Devil And ...

... Harvest Nineteen F orty-Six \/ITAL to any country in any year, more vital than ever to every country this year and, as we in England feel, most vital of ail to us, the harvest 1946 is being gathered with an urgency of purpose not less than that of the darkest days of the war years. In the North they have been fortunate and much of the corn is in safety. In East Anglia some will never be ...

... AFTER a lapse of six years, Cowes Week once again brought the yachting season to its peak. As if to make up for those six empty years, the weather provided an infinite variety of sailing conditions, from days of soft breezes, when courses were shortened to allow the yachts to finish in reasonable time, to days of gales, when the courses were again shortened, but this time to ease the yachts ...

... EATON HALL. Of glorious memories, Eaton is once again turning out yearlings of the best type and quality. The Duke of Westminster, in whose name the yearlings are offered, is now developing his stud in con junction with his newly-acquired Irish property. The photographs were taken in the famous walled paddocks. Mr. Rouch had to exercise all his art and patience to induce the yearlings to stand ...