... 1, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Stalin Says.-- When Stalin dis misses the dangers of a new war and minimises the effects of the atom bomb, millions of Russians (who have felt the breeze as keenly as others) are comforted, relieved and heartened. And so, of course, are millions outside Russia, to whom indeed the wind appeared to set from that quarter. But the relief at Stalin's statement will be ...

... COMMUNISTS AND NATIONALISTS COME TO GRIPS IN THE SHADOW OF THE POTALA A running fight in progress beneath the walls of the old palace in Chengteh, capital of Jehol Province, which was recently the scene of renewed activity in the Chinese civil war. An advancing lorry-borne column of General Chiang Kai-shek's troops has been ambushed by Communist infantrymen Drawing by W. G. Whitaker During the ...

... NAVAL RECRUITS MASTER THE SAILING ART With H.M.S. Nelson towering in the back ground, men of the Training Battleship Squadron at Weymouth receive practice in thi handling of small craft. The Training Battleship Squadron consists of H.M.S. Nelson, wearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. Hickling, H.M.S. Howe and H.M.S. Anson. The trainees are men who have volunteered for seven years' service ...

... ETollowing out their policy of showing the best in their possession, the authorities of the Vicyjl and Albert Museum have gathered together a remark collection of sculpture which is now open to the pu-, in an upper gallery of the Eastern Block of the Musaj This policy of showing only the best pieces is M controlled by the limited space at the disposal the authorities, owing to the large area ...

... rPhe mass court martial of 262 privates of the 13th Battalion Parachute Regiment Is an outcome of a mutiny at Muar last May, and It has been attended by the most un usual circumstances, including an attack on Company-Sergeant-Major O'Brien, a vital prosecution witness, whose skull was fractured during a week-end visit to Malacca following his appearance in the witness-stand. Another witness, ...

... Scotland, with all its vast unharnessed resources of water power, is on the verge of big developments in the industrial field, and the new Glen Affric Power Scheme in Western Inverness-shire, involving an ex penditure of £4,800,000, is only the fore runner of equally ambitious schemes for the Orkneys, Bute, Arran. Morar. and other remote regions. The primary purpose of the scheme is to provide ...

... Above THIS IS THE BRABAZON II. B An artist's impression of the new air-liner now being constructed by Armstrong-Whitworth and details of which were made known to the public at the annual exhibition of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors staged recently at Radlett. The Brabazon II. B is a low-wing monoplane powered by four Mamba airscrew turbines, and it will weigh 35,000 lbs. and will ...

... \T early 100 yards of railway-line, torn from the sleepers and bent like a grotesque giant hair pin, ripped through three com partments of a Southern Railway train last week in an accident at Catford. Four of the train's nine coaches plunged down an embank ment into the car-park of Catford Greyhound Stadium, but of the seventeen passengers who were taken to hospital only one was detained. ...

... THIS is a time when new twists are being given with some frequency to the British Occupation of Germany. A definite enough milestone was reached in August, which saw the end of the good old days --spell during which Montgomery's famous army largely dissolved amid the farewell-party spirit-- and marked the entry of a more staid and permanent note, a new and more sober and serious buckling ...

... HOW THE EARTH WOULD APPEAR TO A TRAVELLER ALIGHTING ON THE MOON It would present a surface ten times as large as the moon presents to us, and the earthlight would appear ten times brighter than moonlight. This artist's impression is supposed to be taken from the crater of Copernicus, one of the great natural features of the moon which has been observed constantly by astronomers. French ...

... While the prisoners of Nuremberg awaited the verdict of the court they were permitted to receive their wives and children, and many of the relatives came in haste to the court-house at Nuremberg as soon as they heard the news. Among the first to arrive was Frau Goering, who in the days following the capitulation denounced her husband, but who has since adopted a wise reserve. She has made her ...

... Ousted from their ancestral homes among the palm-trees of Bikini Atoll to make way for Admiral Blandy's atom bomb experiment, the Bikinians had no reason for satisfaction, but the Ameri- i can Navy has sought to put matters right for them hv j building a new and better j village amid the palm-trees I of Rongerik. The building work has been done by th j Naval Construction Bat talions, and, in ...