... 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 ...

... '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 ...