The Queen’s Meeting With Ex-IRA Commander Martin McGuinness Stirs Emotions

On a late summer morning in 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten, a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, boarded a small fishing boat on the coast of Ireland along with...

Books: The Long Goodbye

FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT by LARRY COLLINS and DOMINIQUE LAPIERRE 572 pages. Illustrated. Simon & Schuster. $12.50. At the stroke of midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, an...

The Press: Censorship

> Photographers and reporters were allowed aboard the British aircraft carrier Illustrious, undergoing repairs at an "undisclosed" U.S. Navy Yard (TIME, Sept...

World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Brighter Picture

The Japanese rush into Manipur, India's easternmost state, had apparently reached its peak, was receding before British attack. In North Burma General Joseph...

Foreign News: Support

In the Dominions it is not done, but in England last week swank Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, M. P., did not seem to think he was hurting his...

World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: When the Rains Go

While the monsoon rains beat a devil's tattoo on the elephant-iron roofs of the Southeast Asia Command. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten returned last week to...

World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: On the Plains of Delhi

In India's capital this week there was a beginning of military unity. Over New Delhi, long a cauldron of inter-and intra-Allied intrigue for military power...

International: Two-in-One Oil

The policymakers of NATO agreed last week on a special formula for ending two years of Anglo-American friction over command of NATO forces in the vital...

Books: Coming of Age

REMEMBER THE HOUSE (241 pp.)—Santha Rama Rau—Harper ($3). The intertwining of two processes—the coming of age of a sensitive .girl and the coming of age of an...

World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Why Are We Waiting?

On their rounds of London last week, visiting U.S. Army chiefs sought out a very lean, very tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Englishman with a graceful name, royal blood,...