... 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 ...

... I GETTING MARRIED The Tatler and Bystander s Review of Weddings Linley Gardiner Lieut. James IAnley R.N.V.R., son of the late Mr. Frank Linley and. of Mrs. Linley of Sloane Street London married Miss Doreen Jane Gardiner elder daughter of tht Rev. H. A and Mrs. Phelps Gardiner of Brampton Rectory near Beccles a/ 5/. Peter's, Brampton H ether ington McClure Captain Gordon Wrigley Hetherington, ...

... Jean Lor i i tier's Page ,he tflilore(j is tu t*e lon„ Uc&etf I J('n^ '!h. >leel °,'ifuUy Photographs by Joy smith EVA concentrates on pocket interest very young- looking and trim. Simpson's (Piccadilly) All the blouses are by PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND all are in moss crepe in a wonderfully comprehensive range of colours ...

... . HENRY MOORE, Yorkshire-born sculptor and draughtsman, enjoys an international reputation, and his works add volume and prestige to British exports He has been working hard on important sculpture for exhibi tion at his Leicester Galleries show, which is due to open on October 8, and a notable selection of his works will be shown in the New York Museum of Modern Art towards the end of the year ...

... irl: Oln. 67. c5usa/i c^I/auwordi Svelte young SUSAN HAYWARD'S beauty and talents garnish the Universal Technicolor picture of pioneer life, 44 Canyon Passage f which has finished shooting and is due very shortly in London. Here she is as a 1946 bathing girl in a costume quite different from those which she wears in 44 Canyon Passage for the picture is set in Oregon in the year 1856 in the ...

... 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 ...