... rHE ROYAL BRIDESMAIDS AT ROMSEY-- THE MARRIAGE OF LORD BRABOURNE TO THE HON. PATRICIA MOUNTBATTEN Princess Elizabeth, the Hon. Pamela Mountbatten (the bride's sister), Princess Alexandra of Kent and Princess Margaret leaving the Abbey after the service The King and Queen and the Princesses were present last week at Romsey Abbey at the wedding of Captain Lord Brabourne, of the Coldstream Guards ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Communism and All Its Works.-- Russian dictators, whether they anticipated it or no, have by their policy and actions in international affairs, brought on Communism the very ugliest name that ever it wore in Western eyes, a name to-day as ugly as Hitler's Nazism and half at least as dangerous. If Stalin and his thirteen desire only to be lelt secure for national ...

... THE KING AND QUEEN LEAVING THE SHELDONIAN THEATRE Their Majesties, followed by Lord Halifax, in his capacity as Chancellor of the University, walking in the procession to the Bodleian Library for the Royal opening of the extension building. They had just attended a special convocation in the Sheldonian at which they received a loyal address in Latin delivered by the Public Orator. The King and ...

... Jphe seventy-eighth Congress of the Trades Union Council, that powerful prop of Britain's Labour Government, ook place in Brighton last week and, just as expected, produced political fireworks of the first order. It was neither the debate on the forty-hour week nor the debate on the Closed Shop that produced the excitement, however, but Mr. Attlee's blunt statement on the policy and actions ...

... In last week's issue of The Sphere preliminary details were given of The Bat, the remarkable radar- guided bomb which was used by the United States Navy in the closing stages of the war against Japan and which did immense damage to Japanese ship ping in the Pacific. The Bat contains in its bulbous nose a miniature radar set, and behind it, in the main body of the missile, is packed 1 ,000 lbs ...

... HThe underground chapels and shrines at the Church of the Tomb of the Blessed Virgin near the Garden ol Gethsemane have for long been a show place for visitors to Jerusalem, and the discovery in the same area of an ancient Byzantine cistern con sequently occasions no great surprise, though arousing much interest. The cistern, with caked mud reaching very nearly to the top of its massive ...

... BKs*JIVVHVh*^BW Sihiiiifl The Bodleian Library, like the British Museum and the Library of the University of Wales, receives a copy of every work published in Great Britain and, such has been the spate of publishing in the present century, it was little wonder that by 1925 Oxford's celebrated library was showing signs of outgrowing itself. In that year it became known that all available ...

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... THE KING AND QUEEN INAUGURATE THE SAVOY CHAPEL AS THE CHAPEL OF THE ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER The King, as Grand Master of the Order, lighting one of the altar candles at last week's service conducted by the Rev. Cecil Creswell, who is seen standing at the altar near the Queen. The new silver altar plate,* which has been subscribed for by members of the Royal Family, was preserved during the war ...

... r /OKIE LAWRENCE IN PARIS She sang at the Palais de Chaillot for the benefit of French penicillin centres. The famous soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, made a special journey 10 France to sing at the Gala of the Penicillin.' She is gradually recovering from the nfantile paralysis that struck her a few years ago, but must still remain seated at the concert platform. Behind her is Mr. ...

... I ast week Rumania went to the polls lor the hrst time in nine years, an in an atmosphere of terror not unlike that which obtained in Bulgaria a fortnight earlier, the pro-Soviet Government Bloc was elected by an over whelming majority, receiving 348 seats in the Rumanian Parliament as compared with the thirty-two seats obtained by the National I easan Party of Dr. Maniu, the official ...