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... The emergence of Israel among the comity of nations has been accepted by America and Russia. Britain has not accorded recognition to the new State. Into the midst of this tense and tangled situation came the shooting down of five British aircraft while engaged in what the Israelis alleged was an armed reconnaissance over Israeli positions within the Negeb, on the Palestine side of the ...

... I HARRY POLLITT IN BULGARIA The leader of the British Communist Party addressing the Fifth Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party in Sofia. According to Mr. Arthur Deakin, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, the British Communists have a plan to disrupt British industry, and they are anxious to act in Britain as they did in France last year THIS PICTURE HAS LED TO ...

... HUS! THE TYROS OF THE SLOPES WHO MAY ONE DAY BE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS Malcolm Curtis (aged seventeen), Eric Fleuret (aged seven teen) and Paul Burrell (aged fifteen), members of the party of 100 British school boys who have been enjoying a ski ing instruction holiday at Murren. Their enthu siasm is tremendous, and since their arrval most of them have made marked prog: ess ON THE NURSFRY SLOPES ...

... I ast week there were reports that Israeli troops were advancing towards Akaba, near the meeting- pcint of the Transjordan, Saudi Arabian and Egyptian frontiers. Apart from the political objective a fait accompli to confront the United Nations the occupation of the Negeb down to Akaba would not only completely cut the land communica tions between Egypt and the rest of the Arab world, but would ...

... n May 1915, when Mr. Churchill left the Admiralty but still remained a member of the Cabinet and the War Council, he found himself in a position of knowing everything but able to do nothing. To say the least of it, he found the situation irksome, and then it was, he says, that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue out of charity and out of chivalry. Some experiments in the country one Sunday ...

... mi THE LIGHT BLUES BEGIN THEIR BOAT-RACE PRACTICE The Cambridge A crew shooting a bridge during initial practice on the Cam in preparation for the race against Oxford on March 26. At the moment they have two crews under training and from these will be decided the composition of the Boat Race crew. A crew is stroked by Ian Laing, the President THE PRESIDENT LEADS THE WAY Ian Laing, President of ...

... J am not a politician or a film star. Taking pictures of meat work would be posing, declared Princess Andrew, the Duke of Edinburgh's mother, when visited in her island home in the /Egean where she now lives in austere seclusion. The Princess, an erect and vigorous sixty-three, receives gifts from friends all over Western Europe, and although she herself is not particularly well- placed ...

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... NEW YEAR'S DAY IN THE STRAND-- THE NORMALLY BUSY THOROUGHFARE AS IT WAS LAST SATURDAY AFTERNOON DURING THE ONE-DAY BUS STRIKE In the distance is a single bus. The unofficial strike was started by bus and tramway workers to enforce their demand for time-and-a-half payment for work on Saturday afternoon. The intention of the strikers' was to keep transport off the roads every Saturday afternoon ...

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... PIPERS OF THE CAMERON HIGHLANDERS HERALD THE NEW YEAR AT THE CHELSEA ARTS BALL The theme of the ball was London River, and the great baekcloth, designed by Stephen Spurrier, A.R.A., R.G.A., was domi nated by the figure of Henry VIII. Six thousand people attended the ball THE BALLOONS DESCEND AS MIDNIGHT STRIKES The hundreds of balloons added to the colourfulness of the scene and were awaited ...