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... Th e new lightships which are now making their appearance around our coasts incorporate many technical improvements and better accommodation for the crews than the pre-war vessels which they are re placing. The latest of these vessels to take station, the' Kentish Knock has just been moored off the Kent coast. Half of the sixteen Trinity House vessels lost during the war have already been ...
... 1. CANADAIR SHOWS THE WAY: Between £4,000,000 and £5,000,000 is being spent by B.O.A.C. on the fleet of twenty-two Canadair air liners which are being made in the Canadair factory outside Montreal. About one-fifth of the equipment for the machines, including the Rolls-Royce engines, is being supplied from Britain. The arrival or the hrst ot the machines at London Airport was made some thing of ...
... JT^r. Ernest Reuter, Lord Mayor of Berlin, told the City Assembly last week that he hoped to reopen the question of the city's inclusion in a new West German State, and meanwhile the currency changes, he declared, were a recognition on the part of the Western Allies that we here in Berlin are a part of the West and will be treated and protected as such. Dr. Reuter's confidence was matched by ...
... QUEEN MARY AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL AT THE SAVOY THEATRE Alec Guinness is received by Her Majesty during an interval of the performance. In the background are the Princess Royal, talking to Sophie Stewart, and Mr. Stanley French, who presents the play. Queen Mary seldom misses a play of importance and is become the foremost patron of the London theatre. Last week she saw J. Lee-Thompson and ...
... THE QUEEN AS HOSTESS TO THE COMMONWEALTH LEADERS-- HER MAJESTY WITH PANDIT NEHRU, INDIAN PREMIER AND KEY FIGURE AT THE CONFERENCE, AND THE BEGUM LIAQUAT ALI KHAN WIFE OF THE PREMIER OF PAKISTAN The King and Queen entertained all the Commonwealth representatives to luncheon. The event coincided with the twenty-third birthday of Princess Elizabeth Before the Commonwealth Prime Ministers held ...
... QUEEN MARY DRIVES TO THE PALACE Her Majesty on the way to the gathering of Prime Ministers which coincided with her granddaughter's twenty-third birthday MRS. ATTLEE DRIVES TO THE PALACE The Prime Minister's wife, who wore a patch over her eye, on the way to the luncheon. She held a sherry party for the visitors THE KING AND QUEEN WITH THE LEADERS OF THE GREAT FAMILY OF NATIONS_LAST WEEK'S ...
... M uffield College, which is to specialise in social science research, its principal aim being to bridge the gap between academic pursuits and practical affairs, long ago began its work in temporary buildings. Last week's ceremony marked the beginning of the full constructional plan envisaged by Lord Nuffield in 1 937, when he offered the University a site to the north of the Castle Mound and ...
... WHICH is the island whose name would leap to the tongue in any universal island quiz, yet is rarely heard of from year's end to year's end? Yes someone has it. St. Helena. Thanks to recurrent newspaper publicity, people are far more conversant with one of St. Helena's four dependencies Tristan da Cunha than they are with St. Helena if we omit Napoleon's con nection with it. Yet St. Helena has ...
... M5JH30 f 1. HUNGARY BIDS GOOD-BYE TO CONSTI TUTIONAL DEMOCRACY: On April 12 the Hungarian Parliament was dissolved and it will meet again after the new elections on May 15. Since the 1947 elections the Opposition in Hungary has been largely eliminated, and most of the Social Democrat leaders have either gone into exile, prison, or retirement, or merged with the Communists as the Hungarian ...
... rgna ■jajraww 'The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 brought a nw dominion into being. The compromise was reached because both sides were determined to put an end to internecine war, which had ravaged Ireland since 1916. But the Irish Free State emerged in more bloodshed, and the Civil War of 1922 dragged on for many months hefore the new State began to live under the terms of its new constitution. ...
... OLD STEINE GARDENS, BRIGHTON, ONCE AGAIN GLITTER WITH FAIRY LIGHTS A gay scene near the front after the Mayor, Councillor Friend-James, had switched on the illuminations following the lifting of the ten-year ban on out-of-door illuminations. The promenades, the piers and the valley gardens are all gaily illuminated, and many Londoners have made special evening excursions to see the resort lit ...
... IN THE THREE REALMS OF HOME ENTERTAINMENT 15 TELEVISION 3 WAVE- BAND RADIO RECORD-CHANGING GRAMOPHONE L/ne iSUMmaA/i of CctwMy This model is the logical outcome of years of research, combining vast pre-war and wartime experience of television technique with an intimate knowledge of every form of sound reproduction and unrivalled facilities for experiment. In this new model His Master's Voice ...