... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. U.S. Elections.--The worst feature of the U.S. General Election is that when the tumult and the shouting die, the nation will not return to normal. On the contrary, election fever or party feeling can only be stimulated by the result. And that may prove a poor look-out for U.N.O. and for American influence in world affairs. The result is well known now. It was ...

... ^PMlT*ifT] I iM iV; ^b*j C unday, November 10, was the first Remembrance Day in Great Britain and the Common wealth Remembrance Day for two World Wars and just before the Two Minutes' Silence the King unveiled the new inscrip tions on the Cenotaph in White hall, thereby dedicating the memorial also to those who died in 1939-45. The deeply impressive ceremony was witnessed by a crowd at least 5 ...

... T1 o-day Czechoslovakia stands at the cross-roads of European affairs. She is essentially the link between Soviet Russia and the demo cracies of the West, and fittingly enough she has a Coalition Ministry largely consisting of Communists and the Christian Democrats and Social National ists who represent Liberal opinion in the country. Since Mr. Klemmens Gottwald, the Communist Prime Minister, ...

... THE Third Programme has now been in existence for a month. On the whole, it has been given a friendly welcome by the Press, although there have been some very natural complaints about the actual reception. Officially the programme can be heard on wave-lengths 203 and 514. Unfortunately, only one person in two can get the programme, and even then a powerful radio set is necessary. 1 he reason ...

... Just as the searchers were beginning to lose hope, and as they were still further increasing their efforts, the news came last Saturday morning that the wrecked United States Dakota had been located in the Alps and that supplies had been dropped to the marooned passengers, among whom were Brigadier-General Haynes and his wife, Colonel William McMahon and his wife and daughter, and Mrs. Tate, ...

... 'phe V 2 rocket, the weapon that Hitler reserved for London in the closing stages of the war, is now the subject of intensive research at the United States Army Proving Grounds at White Sands, New Mexico. These ex- German rockets, and also improved patterns made in America, are being fired regularly with a view to compiling military and also scien tific data, and in the latest experiment, the ...

... A merican aircraft have been active in the Alps during the past ten days following the loss of the Dakota which crashed at 8,000 ft. in the region of the Franco- Italian border. The survivors of that disaster were sought out by planes ready equipped to supply them from the air. and the pictures on this page show a similar operation in progress, though on this occasion of a routine nature. A C ...

... WHETHER Mr. Churchill or (as Moscow avers) Goebbels invented the term iron curtain, the former popularised it throughout the world, and one can well understand why its currency heightens the anger of those to whom it is applied against the British warmonger-in-chief. The mere notion that it is forbidden to peep has focused a hard glare on everything and anything Soviet, whereas the ...

... GREECE INDICTS GERMAN GENERALS T^he question of the mining of the Corfu Channel and of the disaster to the destroyers Volage and Saumarez has been in the forefront of the news for five weeks, and during that time Albania has protested to the United Nations against Britain's aggressive behaviour in Albanian territorial waters and Britain has replied with a firm note to Albania, emphasising the ...

... J^efore the rain descended and washed out play, as It has done in several recent matches in Victoria and New South Wales, the match between the M.C.C. and an Australian XI at Melbourne provided some first-class cricket and one first-class surprise in the person of young McCool. McCool proved himself at times almost unplayable against the M.C.C., and finally, despite being knocked off his ...

... ■qesbhsbb f ■HBEBIBBlia THE VISION OF PETERLOO Guy Verncy and Anna Blackman in Fame is the Spur, romantic picture which is being made at the Denham Studios. Guy Verney plays the part of Homer Radshaw's grandfather who, seeing the body of his sweetheart mown down In the massacre of St. Peter's Field, Manchester, in 1819, Is transformed (in the grandson's imagination) into a knight in shining ...

... THE sumptuous re-maiden voyage of the Queen Elizabeth-- even to important children being able to sail the ship from a miniature bridge-- had two effects. It filled people with pride that a British leviathan should be the first to restore the indulgences of peacetime to those very seas where most tragedy had prevailed, and it focussed atten tion on the need to unscramble the other 99 per cent. ...