20 JULY 1945, page 6

Omens From Simla

By PATRICK LACEY T HE failure of the Simla conference may remind you of sums almost equally hated at school. I mean sums like this: " If twenty-one politicians take nineteen......

Chennault Of China

By EDWARD DALE O VER eight years ago an American Air Force officer, Colonel Claire Chennault, was appointed Aeronautical Adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. He arrived......

This Is Germany

By SQUADRON-LEADER E VEN from the air Germany looks an abandoned country. Sunk barges wallow, like crocodiles, in the Rhine, and the bridges lie crumbled in the water. Beyond,......