14 SEPTEMBER 1944, Page 4

The reception given by the Overseas League on Tuesday to

welcome Sir Evelyn and Lady Wrench home from an Empire tour which has lasted exactly four years was robbed of no little of its attraction by Lady Wrench's absence through illness. But the occasion served its purpose, and the welcome was warm. Sir Evelyn mentioned, incidentally, his satisfaction at the fact that in a stay of over a year in India he never saw an Indian intoxicated.

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