Atomic Energy is a
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Your World of Stamps.—XVl.
Atomic Energy is a New Year Subject
FIRST of the United Nations commemoration stamps for 1958 will relate to the International Atomic Energy Agency, recently set up by the UNO. To symbolise the peaceful use of atomic energy, the stamp featured the UN badge spreading light on an atom. In late years atomic energy has been the subject of stamps from the USA, Russia, Japan, Belgium, Germany, to name but a few contributions. * ♦ * A new form of education and entertainment, Television, has been symbolised on a set of stamps put out by Czechoslovakia, showing a TV transmitter, aerial and receiver, with TV viewers. Not long ago other TV stamps issued in Germany, Italy, France and Luxembourg. * * * The Bird of Paradise appearing on the Netherlands New Guinea stamps is a more graceful and animated rendering of the unusual bird than those seen on the stamps of Papua and" New Guinea. “Life” has been added in a realistic way on the former printing. * * * Television is symbolised by a set of stamps put out by Czechoslovakia showing a TV transmitter, aerial and receiver.