CHINA MAIL, JULY 10, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
ICELAND
American occupation of Iceland and the Presiden- tial declaration removing,| in effect, any hemispheric| boundary of United States defence operations, ad- vances the United States a further bold step, with obvious implications. The President has merely im- plemented the theme of his recent speech in which he declared the folly of waiting until an enemy has begun offensive oper- ations before taking de-| fensive measures.
Whether they realise it or not, the dwindling number of Americans who have been contending that the United States should; fight "only if invaded" are supporting a particu- lar theory of military and diplomatic strategy, and a .discredited one. They are saying, in effect, not that they will fight only if their own national inter ests are vitally affected, which is a much different contention, but that they will fight only on their own soil. This is another way of saying that if Crediting the war with having there is a war the enemy made both necessary and possible the "forced-draft technical ad- will have the advance vancement of trans-oceanic airl assurance that it will be service," Mr. J. T. Trippe, Pre- ways System, told British avia-
Younted Nazi Strength
DOWN ON IT!
COMMON
CAUSE
Transatlantic
Air Service
U.S. territory that will be sident of the Pan American Air Ine
within the next two years.
Wright
the
ocean
the battlefield and not tion experts in London on June type of Clipper has been in oper- the design and development of a
to ation on both the Atlantic and new type of Clipper which his; that it will be U.S.17 that he confidently expects
sce multiple daily schedules, re-the Pacific, we have had 431 cases company's experience to date in- civilians who will suffer quiring but twelve hours for the of repairs made in flight. In each dicated as required for the next
non-stop continent-to-continent of these, affected and the incidental
power plants step in trans-oceanic air service. per-aight, in regular operation over were kept going or else quickly Mr. Trippe disclosed that con- haps decisive costs and this "aerial life-line" between returned to operation. In 64 of struction contracts for a fleet of States and Europe these cases, had the engines not such advanced aircraft were ac- not his; and that the the United
been accessible, the causes of the tually let in June, 1940, with thej great advantage of the Mr. Trippe, who is in London failures were of such a serious first deliveries scheduled for ear- initial surprise will be ac-to discuss aviation matters con- nature that the ship would havely in 1942.
cerning America's international been forced to return to its near. Concerning corded to him. And it is air transport system with British est base with only three of
these new its transports, Mr. Trippe said: "T at least partly because and other officials, presented the engines in operation.
Wilbur twenty-ninth
regret that I am not yet at lib- they followed such a pol- Memorial Lecture on the subject "Third. development of a sys-erty lo disclose the technical de- icy and prepared only of "Ocean Air Transport," before tem of Scientific Flight Control, tails of these aircraft. I can, how- in long-ever, cite certain of the imme- the annual meeting of the Royal a unique advancement for such a policy that Aeronautical Society, the world's range air transport-essentially a diate and specific problems en- third-dimensional flight path, countered in our transatlantic Poland, Norway, Holland, oldest organised aviation group.
plotted with scientific, exactitude operations, the presence of which all known conditions we had in mind in their procure- Belgium, France, Yugo- The Operating Record
affecting each individual flight." ment. slavia and Greece met
To date,
American the Pun their present fate.
Effects Of The War Clippers have completed 352 sche- crossings. On Any country that shows dule transatlantic
This pioneer transatlantic ser- these flights they have transport- in advance that it willed the record totals of 4,685 pas- vice instituted by Pan American fight only on its own ter-sengers, 445,390 pounds of Unit-Airways 20, 1939.
ritory must lose the diplo-
through
365,350 May
The months
mail, and ed. States
of foreign mails. pounds
matic battle that precedes transatlantic Clippers have flown of
in Europe seriously curtailed delayed schedules is an increase
ocean
Winter