... MR. V1SHINSKY CALLS FOR A BAN ON ATOMIC WEAPONS-- THE SOVIET MINISTER ADDRESSING THE UNITED NATIONS ASSEMBLY IN NEW YORK AFTER MR. TRUMAN HAD RELEASED THE NEWS OF RUSSIA'S POSSESSION OF THE SECRET OF THE ATOMIC BOMB Mr. Vishinsky was milder in tone than usual, although attacking the Marshall Plan, which, he said, had split Europe. Mr. Vishinsky's proposals were drafted before the President ...

... THE 34th MOTOR SHOW AT EARL'S COURT A Special Sphere Four page Section *Fhe thirty-fourth International Motor Exhibition opened at Earl's Court last Wednesday. More than 500 firms are exhibiting, to make it the largest exhibition of its kind ever held. Four nations are showing their latest products of motor-cars, motor-boats, coach- building, caravans, transport services, and accessories and ...

... 17 or the first time in the present century a President of the M.C.C. led his side into the field when the Duke of Edinburgh, who is also President of the National Playing Fields Association, took part in the match at Dean Park, Bournemouth. Brilliant weather marked the occasion, and a comfortably- full ground applauded some really exciting cricket. Both as batsman and bowler the Duke ...

... A flood which reached to a height of 10,000 ft. would be a flood indeed, and the idea that the remains of Noah's Ark might be found on the summit of Mount Ararat is one thal'.afchaeologists discount in favour of the theory that a mistranslation of the Scriptures has led us into mistaking flooded desert for flooded mountain. The .key word gebel, meaning everything except the irrigated plain, ...

... THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE'S NEWEST PLANE The Martin XB5I, an aircraft for the support of troops, developed by the Glenn L. Martin Company and now launched on their fortieth anniversary. With its sharply swept-back wings, tandem landing gear, and three turbo jet engines two of them mounted on pylons on the lower sides of the fuselage this new warplane will be easy enough to identify in the ...

... THE ENTHRONEMENT OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH BISHOP OF LLANDAFF AS THE FOURTH ARCHBISHOP OF WALES This was the scene within the bomb-damaged Cathedral of Llandaff, near Cardiff, as Dr. John Morgan took his seat in the archiepiscopal chair, having been led thither by the Mandatory, the Bishop of St. David's. Dr. Morgan has been elected Archbishop in succession to Dr. D. L. Prosser, who resigned ...

... pieven years ago, M. J. Farrell and John Perry wrote a comedy about a crazy Irish family called Spring Meeting. It had a great success, one that has now been followed with their second play Treasure Hunt. It, too, concerns an impoverished Irish family living in a house the upkeep of which is beyond their means. The late master has died leaving several bequests, but no money with which to ...

... J^ondon is not lightly regarding the opportunities presented by the blitz for redevelopment. There will be no repetition of what happened in the London of the seventeenth century which rejected the bold scheming of Wren, forcing the great architect to dovetail his plans with those of the commercial interests. The City of London is, according to the report of the Town Planning Committee, hoping ...

... A MONG the countless commodities affected by the devaluation of the pound, oil and petrol are among the most important. For over 40 per cent, of the oil or petrol supplied in this country comes from the United States or oil companies controlled by American interests. At the moment it is considered unlikely that any changes in price will be announced before Christmas. But that is not far away. ...

... , , 1 FAMOUS IN FIVE CONTINENTS rCorU^ Typically English is the description which almost inevitably is applied to the Riley, a car which cannot be closely compared with products of any other country. It is a car the ancestry of which can be traced back over a long period of years, and which in new post-war form has earned ever increasing popularity The New Riley, in fact, may be said to be at ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Bombs and Formulæ.-- Lam glad that Russia has the atom bomb. I think it best that the load of human misery should be evenly distributed, and the protagonists of civilisation, if they must fear each other, should be equally afraid. If the intelligence services of the Western Powers are right, Russia has got the secret rather sooner than ex pected, and has let off a ...

... The year 1949 is one of importance in the history of Mount Kenya. On Decem ber 3 it will be exactly a century since the missionary Krapf reported that he had seen the great mountain and told an unbelieving world that there was snow on the Equator. Fifty years later the summit of Mount Kenya was reached for the first time by Sir Halford Mackinder, and this year consequently marks the jubilee of ...