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SEVEN PREMIERS at DOWNING STREET: The Start of the Commonwealth Conference

... ■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 ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 268 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE LAST JUDGMENTS OF NUREMBERG: Twenty-one German Officials, Industrialists and Economists Receive Sentence

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 870 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A SURVEY of the HOME NEWS: Pictures from London and the Provinces

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1361 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Photographs 

KIA-ORA

... 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 ...

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... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 293 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE ROYAL FAMILY MEET THE COMMONWEALTH PREMIERS: Last Week's Memorable Gathering at Buckingham ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 419 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

OXFORD'S NEWEST COLLEGE: Laying the Foundation-stone of Nuffield College

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 428 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ST. HELENA, THE OCEAN ORPHAN: News from That Temperate Isle in a Tropic Sea

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1818 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES: A Survey of Foreign Affairs

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1430 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Photographs 

EIRE Becomes a REPUBLIC: The Twenty-six Counties Sever the Last Formal Link with the Commonwealth

... 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. ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 616 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE LIGHTS OF LONDON-BY-THE-SEA: Holiday-time in Brighton, and the Return of the Illuminations

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 181 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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