... 44 LIBYA THANKS ALL NATIONS THAT SUPPORTED HER LIBERTY Arabs parading through the streets of Tripoli carrying a banner proclaiming their thankfulness at the United Nations decision. On the previous day the General Assembly of the United Nations, meeting at Flushing Meadow. New York, agreed by 48 votes to 1 with nine abstentions, that the former Italian colony of Libya should be independent by ...

... ■rrmgwH1 v 40 'T. A NEW TOWNSHIP RISES IN NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING This permanent camp in the mountains accommodates construction workers on the Boysen Dam, which is being built on the Big Horn River to provide irrigation, generate power and exercise flood and silt control. When the dam is completed in 1952 the camp will provide homes for the maintenance staff. Work was begun on the dam in 1946, ...

... SYRIAN WOMEN GO TO THE POLLS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR HISTORY Voting in progress in Damascus in an election fraught with considerable consequence for the Syrian people. On the right is Miss Amal Abdul Kader, of the famous Abdul Kader family of Algeria. She is the head of a Damascus girls' school. There were 470 candidates at the election for 1 1 4 seats in the new Constituent Assembly, ...

... /-6E3$\ CIGARS IN SEALED TUBES THE IDEAL P A C K I N G F 0 R A L L CLIMATES ACTUAL SIZE Ah INCHES 3'- I:ach 15^- Per Packet of 5 CIGARS L.G 2. ...

... I BB1 KEEElp i wamgggm pieces o( Cornwall, the west coas of Scotland, the Lake District North Wales, Italy ant) the Mediter ranean all welded into a terrain of 1 some 20 miles by 30 truly a nS cosm of lovely places. That was ho one Commander-in-Chief Governor of Hong Kong faoM the Colony during his tenure of oHice in the '30's. Britain s last citadel the Far East is, indeed, P>a ol great ...

... Fourteen monks from the Benedic tines of Prinknash Abbey, near Gloucester, have started a twenty-five- year task in restoring the 700-vear- old ruined Pluscarden Priory, near Elgin, Scotland. It is their hope that when the work has been completed, the old Priory will once again be a flourishing Benedictine community of fifty or sixty monks. The ruined Priory has been pre sented to the ...

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... If pou belieoe In Fairies, clap pour bands y Tinker has taken a drink of the poisoned medicine, and lies dying on her tiny bed, but she thinks she could get well again if children believed in fairies. So Peter Pan puts it to the house. Specially painted for The Sketch by GRACE GOLDEN. ...

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... IF, in May of 1936, anyone had prophesied that Italy would be returning to Africa 13½ years later, after having been thrown neck and crop out of it, he'd have been advised to consult a brain specialist. Yet so it's to be before the present month is out. The African Empire dizzily proclaimed by the Duce from his famous Roman balcony lasted how long Four five seven years At maximum until ...

... ■I Sn HE CROTON RESERVOIR FAR BELOW SEASONAL LEVEL This aerial view taken above the dam shows a vast stretch of shoreline revealed by the low level of the water. According to Mr. J. Carney, Commissioner for Water Supply, New York has only one chance in five of filling its reservoirs by next June THE REMAINS OF A BURIED TOWN BROUGHT TO LIGHT AT ASHOKAN RESERVOIR This reservoir in the Catskill ...

... IN the next few days the coal industry will have been under nationalisation for three years; for it was on January 1, 1947, that the blue flag of the National Coal Board was first flown proudly at the masthead of every pit in the country with the excep tion of the 400 or 500 one-horse collieries which the Government did not think worth while commandeering. What is the record ot the National ...