... THE DUKE AND DUCHESS AT EDNAM LODGE, SUNNINGDALE It is their first visit to England since 1939 and, on arrival from Paris, they went straight to Sunningdale for a quiet week-end. According to present arrangements they may be going to New York on the Queen Elizabeth's second voyage MR. CHURCHILL'S GIFT HOUSE Britain's wartime leader giving the V-sign after the official opening ceremony at ...

... 17 ver since Britain first assumed the burden; of governance in India the problem of exercising control upon the North-West Frontier has been acute. With the assumption of power by Pandit Nehru's interim Government it will be interesting to see how the Indians themselves discipline the war like tribesmen who, the moment the annual harvest is gathered, so often exchange their agricultural ...

... C)n October 7 Persian General Headquarters announced that fighting in the south west, in Fars, Shiraz, and all garrisons had ceased and that the powerful Qashgai tribes men, under their leader, Mohamed Nasser Khan, had agreed to a truce with the Central Government at Teheran. Thus came to an end the first round of the civil conflict which had broken out in Western and South-Westem Persia, and ...

... SO much of western writing is critical of Russian bearing and activity in Germany that I made a point of searching for aspects of Soviet rule, which might cause us to reflect, if not to take from them. Some of what follows may be counter to Allied agreement. In other instances, Soviet policy may be adjudged unethical. That is for you to settle. The big hit in the Eastern Zone is stdl the ...

... FINISHING-TOUCHES TO A GREAT CREATION Piguet, one of the dozen leading Paris dress designers, directing the final fitting of an evening dress for his autumn show. Evening dresses cost an/thing from £100 upwards in post-war Paris, but only the leading concerns can ask the very top prices. The autumn collections provide proof or otherwise of the continuing supremacy of each house THE VERDICT OF ...

... iT Mi 'gMTi f .T T-jj 'SCI LI A COLLEDGE TURNS PROFESSIONAL The former Amateur Skating Champion of the world prepares for her star role at the Stoll Theatre. Tom Arnold has transformed the stage of the vast Stoll Theatre In Kingsway into an elaborate ice-rink for his new show Icecapades. It has been produced by Armand Perren, champion skater of Switzerland, and gives Cecilia Colledge her first ...

... TTe United States Navy has just released news of the Bat, an automatic missile which is guided from the parent aircraft right on to the target. As a weapon it is 100 per cent, efficient, both by day and night, and it would constitute a serious menace to surface ships if released in large numbers by attacking aircraft, particularly under cover of night. A modified form of the Bat was used ...

... iHlAiSlklJLxBl/ lliH YY^hen the news rescind Britain from Maliya that the 243 paratrooperi who were accused of mutiny at Muar had been sentenced to terms of imprisonment averaging over two years per I man, immediate action wis I taken in this country, and I over 100 M.P.s, besieged by I their constituents, in turn I tackled Mr. Bellenger, tie I new War Minister, with I regard to the legality ...

... In this first full season of post-war racing the English turf has been dominated as never before by French bloodstock, and in nearly all the great long-distance races, such as the Ascot Gold Cup (Caracalla II), the George VI Stakes (Souveram), the Queen Alexandra Stakes (Marsyas II) and the Good wood Cup (Marsyas II), French-bred and French-trained horses have carried the day. Lven Airborne, ...

... phe Internationa! Trade and Employment Con ference which met last week at Church House, Westminster, plans to implement a world trade policy. It hopes that the actions of each country in creating full employment may be co-ordinated into the general pattern, and that the dangers of cut-throat competition, a root cause of war, may be eliminated. The Conference at once set to work preparing an ...

... PRIMA BALLERINA IRINA BARONOYA RETURNS TO THE BRITISH STAGE The beautiful young dancer stars in a new comedy-thriller. Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon wrote an amusing novel before the war, called Bullet in the Ballet. It has now been dramatised and has two world- renowned ballet dancers Irina Baronova and Leonide Massine playing the leads. Here, Baronova is rehearsing with the corps de ballet ...

... lY/hile the delegates to the Paris Peace Conference have laboured through a bleak summer and early autumn ;eeking an understanding on the thousand-and-one problems >f a troubled world, they have found Trieste a recurring ►tumbling-block. At the end of September Mr. Kardelj, the hard-hitting leader of the Yugoslav delegation, bluntly announced that his Government would not accept the so-called ...