... At the end of the war there was a vast quantity of military material stored in dumps throughout India and the Middle East, to which were later added the stores removed from Egypt during the evacuation by the British. During six months alone some 1 00,000 tons of stores were withdrawn from Alexandria and Cairo. In order to accommodate this huge collection, the Army authorities, like the ...

... ■Si ^_l p reener is April, boasting of thy birth mori blossomed May because she swaddle thee, wrote T. W. H. Crosland in his fine sonnet, On SAofi- spcare. These spring months, indeed, belong e sentuili to the poet of Stratford, for April 23 was th day ot Shakespeare's death at New Place. It is always cek- brated as the day of his birth, for he was chri; ened a] April 26, 1564. It is ...

... On right Before coming to London for the Commonwealth Conference, Pandit Nehru brought together in New Delhi the representatives of Afghanistan, Australia, Burma, Ceylon, China, Egypt, Iran, Nepal and Pakistan with a view to reviewing the situation as it had developed in Indonesia since the Conference last met. The Asian bloc, it would seem, has been deeply critical of the over-timid handling ...

... SOARING ABOVE DUNSTABLE DOWNS In this glider Ladislav Marmol, a former member of a Royal Air Force Czech squadron, made his attempt to beat the world gliding record of 44 hrs. 17 mins. set up by the Frenchman Guy Marchand. Eventually Marmol landed after 33 hrs. 5 mins., being compelled to come down because the wind dropped suddenly and there were no upward gusts to sustain him. Marmol flew ...

... TAKING A CAR TO THE CONTINENT The first scheduled air ferry service for motorists travelling to the Continent began at Lympne Airport, Kent, when a Bristol freighter of Silver City Airways took off for Le Touquet. The service runs three times daily in each direction. The fare for a car up to 14 ft. in length with four passengers and baggage is £27. The petrol tank of the car may be three ...

... 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 ...