... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Frustration All Round.-- It is not merely the poisoned dart aimed at the Labour Government, but a much more widely-held opinion which is daily voiced that the nation is suffering from frustration and is becoming unnaturally apathetic and cynical. Nothing works. The machine, if it can be so called, stutters and breaks down everywhere in every department of life. You ...

... The Luftwaffe in a few nights transformed the face of Step ney, and now the London County Council, taking advantage of the blitzed area, intends to make a newer and better Stepney, with spacious parks and recreation- grounds occupying what once was slum property. Happily, historic St. Dunstan's Church still remains to give continuity to the history of this part of London's East End STEPNEY ...

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... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Post-War History Repeats Itself.-- For God's sake do not drag me into another war! I am worn down and worn out, with crusa ding and defending Europe and de fending mankind; I must think a little of myself. I am sorry for the Spaniards-- I am sorry for the Greeks-- I deplore the fate of the Jews; the people of the Sandwich Islands are groaning under the most ...

... After the tumult of preceding weeks, in which Calcutta was the scene of bitter racial feuds, of bloodshed, arson and pillage, the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr provided a lull in the political storm, and for one day the Muslim community turned to prayer and thanksgiving. In the political sphere the Muslim Leaguers, and their leader, Mr. Jinnah, remained aloof from the new Interim Government ...

... WITH only one uncertainty (and that a small one) still to be regulated, it is possible to present an almost complete table of kingship as it came to be affected by Hitler's War. While not so severe as losses suffered through the first World War, casualties in Europe have been about 30 per cent. of the restricted number of monarchies that remained in 1939. Had great empires existed as they did ...

... TRANSHIPMENT AT HAIFA A British officer, with his megaphone, directs operations as some of the 1,200 illegal immigrants from the hulk, The Four Freedoms, are transferred to the Empire Heywood for transportation to Cyprus. The Four Freedoms, falling to pieces with age, was quite unseaworthy SHE CARRIED 1,200 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: The Four Freedoms alongside the Empire Heywood at Haifa as the ...

... No sooner had the Duke of Norfolk and his associates proclaimed their plan to restore Fountains Abbey for use as a monastery than praise and criticism poured in from every quarter, Roman Catholics, Protestants, architects and professional writers to the Press joining in what has quickly become a first-class con troversy over one of the major antiquities of the country. The Duke of Norfolk, in ...

... f)n September 8, 1 ,000 of London's houseless walked into the Duchess of Bedford Mansions, a block of luxury flats in Kensington, and in a matter of minutes they had taken over the building. So began a new and disturbing phase in London's squatting movement, and the Cabinet, which had looked on with fair equanimity at the invasion of military camps, was forced to take notice of this more ...

... iT* i i7^4Mb* Xhe proposal to raise by 10 ft. the level of Enner dale throws into relief the controversy between those who would preserve the rural amenities of the Lake District and those who would develop the West Cumberland area, which is so sadly in need of new industries. Many people who live in the area hold that employment and social benefit should be paramount, and that Whitehaven's ...

... IT is uncanny to realise that-- Hitler permitting-- one could have flown to Switzerland in 2¼ hours at any moment during the war. To people, like myself, who have visited the U.S. since VJ Day, the incredible difference between the English and Swiss mode of life is not quite so breath-taking as it would otherwise have been. And yet it makes one gasp to leave Croydon at luncheon time and arrive ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Business of Govern ment.-- The first business of any Government is to govern; that is, to uphold the rule of its country's laws and to pass or enforce such legislation as is necessary to ensure the maxi mum of order and reform which the conditions of the day require. Mr. Attlee's Government came to power at a time when most of the country's institutions were in ...