... Ashley Courtenay Tours the South-West of England Some Personal Recommendations Regarding Where to Go and Where to Stay When Travelling Through the West Country The lour outlined embraces a selection of hotels visited by me during 1951. It does not claim to give a complete picture of the touristic possibilities of the West Country. SO you are contemplating a motoring tour of the West Country? ...

... Middle East War Theatres Impressions of Suez, the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip The war in the Middle East brought again into prominence names hallowed in scripture or renowned from antiquity. The southern part of the Sinai Peninsula, in which the prophet Moses received the Tables of the Law on the Mount, was spared any serious fighting. It is rough and hilly country in which troops would ...

... Canal Blocks Plans of Egyptian Obstructions from Port Said to Suez In Port Said the positions of the twenty wrecks sunk by the Egyptians have now been fully plotted. For the most part they are in three groups and work has gone ahead to deal with some of them so that tank-landing ships can pass into the harbour. The Allies hold about twenty-three miles of the Canal below Port Said, as far as El ...

... INTELLIGENCE, BIGGEST BATTLE LOSER Faulty Assessments and Their Historic Consequences By FERDINAND TUOHY YOU may liken Intelligence to a pyramid, said the Staff colonel-instructor. Each stone, or fragment of information or deduction, leading upward to the topmost stone-- what you think the other fellow has in mind, or plans to do. The worst is to lay the top stone first and thread down ...

... A Dream Becomes Reality After Fifty-nine Years of Controversy the Seaway was Built IN 1535 the first vessel from overseas sailed up the St. Lawrence River. Captained by Jacques Cartier and commissioned by Francis I of France, the ship was halted by the Lachine Rapids, 1,000 miles from the Atlantic. It was not until April of this year that average-sized, sea-going ships were able to sail any ...

... Ashley Courtenay Tours Scotland Some Personal Recommendations Regarding Where to Go and Where to Stay on a 1,200 -mile Journey Through the Highlands and Lowlands The lour outlined embraces hotels visited by mc on my Scottish journeyings in 1951 and does not claim to give a complete picture of Scotland's touristic possibilities. But ivhat it does provide especially for anyone planning a first ...

... A £200,000,000 Dam for the Nili the proposal to Harness tne riooawuien of the Nile for Irrigation and Electricity at the Sadd el Aa1i, in Southern Egypt By HENRY AYRES, C.B.E. With Drawings by VICTOR COVERLEY-PRIC WHATEVER may be the causes, Egypt can just claim to be the home of many gigantic projects from the earliest historical times. So it should not be altogether surprising that there ...

... Caribbean Federation British West Indian Islands are Preparing to Become a Federation Illustrated by PERCY HOME There will always be a slightly romantic flavour about the phrase the Caribbean. The islands scattered in the sea to the east of Central America were the. home of the original buccaneers and many of us, recalling our boy hood reading, will still think first of the Caribbean as an ...

... The Lothians Edinburgh's Country, the Historic Area Within Easy Reach of the Visitor to the Eighth Festival, Which Opens on August 22 WITH SPECIAL SPHERE DRAWINGS By JOHN MACKAY The visitor to this year's eighth Edinburgh Festival will not get a real insight into the Festival City until he has also seen something of the country around it. He may see little of scenic splendour in the tourist ...

... THE FORTH ROAD BRIDGE The approaches to a new landmark in Scotland Visitors to Edinburgh nowadays find additional interest in the South Queens- ferry district ten miles away, where construction is well advanced on the approach roads and on the new road bridge itself over the Firth of Forth. When it is completed the bridge will have the longest single span of any bridge of its kind in Europe. ...

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... I y British Troops Now Have Safe Access i to the Vital Water Filtration Plant y ijv w AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE DISTRICT AROUND THE WATER FILTRATION PLANT OUT SIDE SUEZ BEFORE THE NEW ROAD WAS BUILT The picture shows the old route through the slums of Suez, which pro vided ideal ambush cover for the armed thugs who had almost isolated the British garrison protecting the water plant. Also shown is ...