... the turn of the year President Truman decided upon I sending military and civil advisers to Formosa, where the Nationalists are planning their last stand. The Nationalists I still hold command of the China Seas, but on the mainland their war effort is clearly drawing to a close, as witness these pictures taken in Indo-China as troops in the south-west crossed the border to seek sanctuary among ...

... T'he U.S. Air Force s latest model of the North American Sabre jet fighter, the YF 86D, has just successfully completed its first flight at Muroc Air Force Base, Muroc, California. The F86A holds the world's speed record of 670*98 1 miles per hour. The YF 86D not only differs from its prede cessor by having an air intake duct under the nose instead of in the centre of the nose, but it has a ...

... T'hese pictures of life and work at John Brown s draw attention to the varied tasks in a great British yard. John Brown s has now known fifteen years of uninter rupted prosperity, and had its full shire in last year's post-war record of 1 ,400,000 gross tons of new merchant ships turned out by British yards. Inevitably a large proportion of the yard's craftsmen are now no longer young, and it ...

... P p p| p SOME PERSONALITIES EZ I L L IN THE WORLD NEWS 1. WHERE IS ENVER HOXHA? This is the question which has been asked in Tirana ever since the Albanian Premier left by plane for Moscow in November. Hoxha was accompanied by two Russian generals, and, up to the time of writing, the world has been entirely without news of him. One rumour has been that Moscow has removed him from office ...

... Cince the ten-week round-table conference at The Hague in the autumn, a conference which ended in the Nethei lands agreeing to let Indonesia go her own way in her own time, the Netherlands Parliament and the Constitutional authorities of the sixteen States of the United States of Indonesia have all ratified the agreements. As a result, at Amsterdam on December 27, Queen Juliana was able to ...

... The Pope in his Christmas message, coinciding with the inauguration of the Holy Year, the Anno Sancto, which will bring 3,000,000 pilgrims flocking to Rome before the year is out, declared that the year was not to be a con ceited display of Roman Catholic strength in the sense understood by the world which made success consist of the momentary plaudits of vast masses. It must instead be ...

... Acrobatics, with a comedy touch, on the high win must seem a dangerous occupation for family. This year at Olympia, true to its tradition for novelty, Bertram Mills' Circus presents to such a family in the Arturos, who are appearing England for the first time. Indeed, they arrived this country from America only five days before the dress-rehearsal The dangers confronting the Arturos as thtJ ...

... CENTRE-PIECE IN GALLERY II OF CONTINENTAL ART IS A CELEBRATED SPINET DECORATED WITH SCENES FROM OVID'S METAMORPHOSES The instrument, which stands in a cabinet in the centre of the gallery, dates from the year 1600, and is said to have belonged to the Winter Queen, Elizabeth of Bohemia. On the right is a large Flemish ebony cabinet of fine workmanship BERNINI'S BUST OF AN ENGLISHMAN It has been ...

... The glory of Durham is .. . standing near the the rocky peninsula above the Wear. It is this peninsula been causing much heart-searc Durham in the post-war yet Durham's University, which trally placed in the Castle are need of expansion. The fcj staff of 300 and the 3,000 1 h find it hard to fit into this 3 neck of land. If new UbJ buildings are set up the IWjB authorities would like to ...

... JANUARY I, 1950-- LONDON CHEERS AS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY REACHES ITS HALF-WAY MARK; THE VAST CROWD ROUND THE BOARDED-UP STATUE OF EROS IN PICCADILLY CIRCUS A FEW MOMENTS AFTER THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT Tens of thousands of people invaded the West End to witness the passing of 1949 and to greet 1950. Trafalgar Square was similarly thronged, and in the City there was the usual great gathering round ...

... I, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Fifty-fifty.-- I keep on say ing to myself fifty fifty, and already the exercise is bearing fruit on my cheques and letter headings I have scratched out 1949 only three of four times. There is virtue in even numbers, although I admit most proverbs are contradicted by others. trill 1 undoubtedly there is something very satisfactory and neat about the figure 50, ...

... As the petrol engine took over more and more of streets, so the horse became an increasingly rare in London. Apart from the 5,000 slow-moving van he mostly owned by British Railways and already banned many of London's busiest streets-- the horse and rider, team of horses drawing a coach, is an unusual sight in to-day. Occasionally a stage coach is seen in London, or more a rider in the ...