... 1,300 deputies from all parts of the Soviet Union packed the Andrews Hall in the Kremlin and strolled beneath the great chandeliers of the Geogievsky Hall when they met in Moscow recently to hear the Budget with its mighty alloca tions for the armed forces. Their meeting took place shortly after the replacement of Mr. Moloton by Mr. Vishinsky, and it was noted that Mr. Moloton and ...

... reed roof well laid will last for half-a-century without repair, and the life of a straw thatch is at least thirty years. Country folk know these qualities full well, also the warmth which thatch imparts in winter and the coolness in summer, and for these very solid reasons it is doubtful if the thatchers art will ever die out in this country. Mr. E. J. Pearce, who is seen engaged in thatching ...

... Fourteen members oj the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedi tion have returned to Australia ajio fourteen months on Heard Island in the sub-Antarctic 3,500 miles south west of Melbourne. The expedition established an A -class weather aw scientific research station on the pi fr viously uninhabited island, a station that has been able to provide both flying men and agriculturists i ...

... HT erence Rattigan's great success as a dramatist, has been mainly concerned with the lighter side of the theatre. His latest play, Adventure Story, is a serious attempt to reconstruct Alexander of Macedon's life from B.C. 336, when he began his great years of conquest, until his death fourteen years later. The play has ten scenes beginning at Delphi, where the young Alexander consults Pythia, ...

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... , v Wherever Timber is Used Solignum Protects it J The preservation of timber has been always important, but its present shortage renders the need for Solignum even more imperative. For over 40 years Solignum has been used for the protection of woodwork against dry-rot and decay. It destroys the dry-rot fungus wherever brought into contact with it and gives com plete immunity against attack. ...

... ■nvgn 4*1 3 TH PREMIERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH GATHER IN THE GARDENS OF NO. 10 AFTER THE SHERRY PARTY GIVEN BY MRS ATTLEE AND BEFORE LEAVING FOR THE BUCKINGHAM PALACE LUNCHEON Left to right, front row Mrs. Attlee, Pandit Nehru India), Lady Cripps, Mrs. Malan, Mr. Attlee, the Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, and Mr. Chifley (Australia). Left to Right, second row Sir Stanord Cripps, Mr. Pearson (Canada's ...

... Cince the trial of Goering and other Nazi leaders by an inter national military tribunal at Nuremberg there have been 1 77 defendants in the dock, apart from those who committed suicide in their cells or were released from trial because of illness, and of these 142 have been convicted and twenty-four sentenced to death by hanging. April 14 saw the last judgments of Nuremberg when twenty-one ...

... A SURVEY of the HOME NEWS Pictures from London and the Provinces 1. THE NEW ZEALANDERS IN ENGLAND: At the very start of April the Dominion visitors were practising at the nets at Lord's, and later in the month they went down to Eastbourne, where they put in some more practice before last week's opening one-day match against L. C. Stevens's XI. First impressions can be misleading, but both at ...

... To be a flier I shall try, said an ambitious lion, He borrowed wings from an elderly fly and called himself a Flyon. Leaving as security his five bottles of kia-ora THE MOST DELICIOUS OF ALL FRUIT DRINKS ORANGE LEMON GRAPE FRUIT LIME LEMON BARLEY ...

... THE LIGHTS GO UP IN LONDON--GREAT CROWDS JAM PICCADILLY CIRCUS AND ITS APPROACHES WITH THE RETURN OF ILLUMINATED ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE SEPTEMBER 1939 Large traffic blocks developed throughout the West End, and extra police drafted into the area succeeded after tremendous efforts in getting the traffic moving again. This view, looking towards the Eros statue, was taken ...