12, 1939.
PETROL
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•10 h.p.
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NOT A FORCED LANDING.-The "Walrus" amphibian aircraft carried by many of our warships is catapulted into flight and is the On returning heaviest craft which can be launched by this means.
from a flight the plane is hoisted inboard by crane. Often these air- craft have to land on anything but calm water and this calls for skil- ful piloting. This picture was taken during exercises off Malta. The observer climbs out on to the fuselage to prepare the tackle for hook- ing on ready for hoisting aboard again after a flight. Picture pass- ed by Admiralty.
SOCIA
NOCIALISTS especially ought to of irritable frankness that "a collec- be forewarned against the tive peace system was impracticable, Great Man theory, seeing what a hardly worth considering." ghastly experience we had with
MacDonald. That we were betrayed
It could was our own fault.
not
have happened if we had not made a hero of the man..
*
E deceived the nation into giv-
that electioneering speech of The Tories, also, I should think, Hoare's, and then admitted he had. must have had enough of regarding played this shameful trick, Hế any leader as a demi-god. That was blethered about the horrors of war how they treated Baldwin-some of and about Satan being "more con- them with cynical winks, but most spicuously at large," but by refusing en as the Man of with the sincere belief that he was to take the only means of baulking Satan and stopping war the the Ideal English politician.
means that even-Chamberlain -has They believed that up to less now to fall back on-he laid the way disasters of the than two years ago. What do they, open for all the and what does everybody else, past eight years. think of him now? He is gibbet-
reerist. He was than he deserved Foreign Office as successor. It is eople that it was ce, who sent the nia, telling the "use his utmost the Emperor to are-Laval plot.
This
was the politician
the
ed already, without waiting for tories made their hero. What a les- the verdict of history, as the man son to all of us to have done with whose trickery and vacillation led this delusion of the Necessary us into our present highly dan Man! If we know where we mean gerous and dishonourable plight. to go, and are resolved to get there, we shall never lack leaders to head
It was Baldwin who threw over the procession. hed out by Cham- Collective Security, which might 188olini did not have saved us from all these ills. Yet his whiskers, his he did not consistently proclaim his In feeble, his at- determination to scrap the League of umble suppliant Nations. He put up his Foreign
Secretary, Hoare to declare in 1935" first-rate record, that British policy was based on the to pretend that Covenant, although a year before he man of the hour. had declared in one of his moments
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