... ■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 ...

... 'T'he Avro 694 Lincoln is virtually a scaled-up version of the Lancaster. In fact, the Lincoln I and II were known originally as the Lancaster IV and V. Now, as a development of the Lincoln, the standard post-war heavy bomber of the R.A.F., comes the Avro 6% Shackleton which closelv resembles the Lincoln II Those with an eye to aircraft identification will be the first to observe, however, ...

... m i TI ffi i icTfwfi WORK BEGINS ON THE REBUILDING OF HISTORIC GRAY'S INN The Hall, built about 1555 to 1560, was badly bombed during the war, and the building gutted. The foundations of the Hall and the seventeenth-century Chapel had to be examined and strengthened before the work of restoration could begin. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors was produced at Gray's Inn Hall in 1594. The gardens ...

... NEXT week the holiday camping season will be in full swing, though at least one, at Clacton, was open at Easter. I was down there myself acting as Quiz Master and was thus able to study this modern phenomenon at close range. Holiday camps, the proprietors of which are now beginning to call them holiday villages, are self- contained settlements in which the guests' needs are supplied for an all ...

... TROLLOPE'S FIRST NOVEL.-- I am not sure that Anthony Trollope's first novel does not demand closer examina tion and more meticulous study than all the rest of the half-hundred which resulted from his industry. For if it had succeeded as many critics may well consider it should have succeeded it might have directed Trol- lope's future course as a novelist into a different channel and possibly ...

... 'T'he Portland Vase, dating from the third century A.D., was brought from Italy by Sir William Hamilton in 1770. It was acquired by the Portland family in 1786, and in 1810 they deposited it in the British Museum, where thirty-five years later it was shattered by a madman. Patiently built up again by a Mr. Doubleday, its original restoration was considered a masterpiece of its kind. Now it has ...

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... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Yangtse Incident. --An act of wanton aggression which cost the lives of many British sailors and very heavy damage to her war ships is not very completely described as an incident. An accident it certainly was not. It was deliberate and unprovoked brigandage and aggression. The Panay affair of 1937, when the Japs shelled an American warship, is cited as a ...

... J^he latest changes in the German frontier and the cessions to Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France are not of world- shaking importance, and all of them are dictated by sound common sense, helping to make the ways straight and cut out borderland anomalies. Belgium has helped to assuage German grief by renouncing, temporarily at any rate, most of the claims, with the result that she gams ...