... THE NEW ATLANTIC CHARTER-AND THE OLD LEAGUE Is a New League of Nations Foreshadowed by the Roosevelt-Churchill Charter If so, There Are Many Lessons to be Learned from the Failure of the Old League to Maintain Peace Throughout Europe By FERDINAND TUOHY THE clauses of the Atlantic pronouncement set one's mind roving forward and backward. For them ever to come to anything, some form of pre ...

... CRUISERS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY ome Special Features which Give Them a Very Distinctive Silhouette The cruiser is a type of warship which has a special appeal both to the layman and the expert. The very special and varied work which she has to carry out, and her brilliant record of accom plishment both in the last war and in this, put her in a very high place in popular estimation. The ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. iOI I, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Doctor's Dilemma.-- Little Doctor Gobbles, in opening for the Fuhrer an exhibition of German art the other day, piped in as low a key as ever I can recall. He roared, indeed, as gently as any sucking dove. It is significant; it is perhaps a trifle, but a tremendous trifle. There were seasonable reasons, no doubt, for this unusual ...

... RIVERS ARE NO OBSTACLES TO THE SOLDIERS OF SOVIET RUSSIA The country is criss-crossed by waterways the negotiation of such water obstacles has played an important part in the training of the Red Army therefore HOW THE GUERILLAS ARE ARMED A pistol at his belt, and with two hand-grenades ready for instant action, this member of the People's Army takes up a position in the woods behind the German ...

... Other Things Than War Jane Austen as She Should be Played; London's Wounds; Tabulated Facts, and Other Items of Home Interest PRIDE AND PREJU DICE.-- In a sylvan glade I enjoyed, as a wartime relief, watching my own and other small children playing scenes from Pride and Prejudice. Mr. Collins was represented (in a strange variety of garments borrowed from men and women in the neighbourhood), ...

... SEVENTY GERMAN TANKS VAINLY ATTACK A RUSSIAN TOWN FOR FOURTEEN HOURS, but are driven off with a loss of over 50 per cent.- --Drawing by Roland Davies. (See notes on left) PART OF THE CONFLICT IS BEING WAGED IN THICK SNOW Though it is now the height of summer, part of the Russian- German war is being waged over ground where the snow still lies thick. Here is a Nazi tank making difficult headway ...

... THE GUN TURRETS of the BOMBERS How they ore Placed and How they are Operated ON some of our bombing air craft we now have three of the famous power-operated gun turrets for the protection of aeroplane and crew: these are a nose turret; tail turret; and a retractable and rotating turret beneath the fuselage, for security against attack from below. the gun turrets htted on British aircraft or ...

... THE MAN WHO DROPS THE BOMBS ON GERMANY In his right hand he holds the vital bomb-release switch THE GUNNER IN THE TAIL TURRET SIGHTS HIS GUN IN HIS TINY CABIN IN THE BOMBER the Observer-bomb-aimer plots OUt the course during the flight The half-wing and an O is the badge of the R.A.F. Observer. It Is he who, as soon as the aircraft has left the ground, gives the pilot his course, height and ...

... SYRIA and its NATIVE PROBLEMS A Diversified Land Occupied by Many Races, the Proper Settlement of Which May Prove No Easy Task Described by H. J. SHEPSTONE THE request for an armistice by General Dentz, the French High Commissioner for Syria, was more than welcomed for many reasons. In the first place, such a campaign should never have been necessary. It would not have been had it not been for ...

... FROM THE TROPICS TO THE ARCTIC OCEAN The Work of the Royal Navy in Many Waters and the Exacting Conditions Under Which the Personnel Have to Live BEFORE the war, the designers of British cruisers came in for a good deal of criticism from lay en because the official returns and books of reference suggested that their products were inferior to those of foreign navies-- to the Italians in the ...

... PROTECTING THE OCEAN BOTTLENECKS The Task of Their Defence is Greatly Increased Owing to the Proximity of the Enemy Across the Channel, and the Loss of the Irish Bases FOR many years enemy possession of the Channel and Flanders coasts has been the dread of British administrators, for our shipping will always be the pet target of every maritime Power with whom we may be at war. Now the enemy ...

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