THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE ––
POLITICAL PARADOX
It is a curious paradox of political life that while Liberalism has grown stronger and stronger during the last twenty years, the Liberal Party! has grown weaker and weaker. Its creed has be- come the creed of British democracy. A political faith which all the best minds of all parties either accepted or at least did not repudiate, afforded no basis for party strife, no rallying ground for party leaders, and ceased to gather big battalions for the conflict at Westmin- ster.
The Labour Party had a more controversial case to put before the electors | and won the suffrages of many who still believed in all that Liberals had stood for. Conservatism had broadened its plat- form and no longer ques- tioried the fundamentals for which Liberals once). had fought, and won the votes of many Liberal- minded men who distrust- ed the class-objectives of Socialists. A course in which all believe is one for which no one need unless it is again fight called in question.
But Hitler has called it in question. The freedom at home-the right of free speech and thought, of political representation, of justice in the courts for which Liberals fought in the past, has been denied by Hitler. Equally he has denied the political rights other peoples,
of
Gates.
BORIS
"NO AGGRESSIVE INTENTIONS."
R.A.F.'s Amazing
Aircraft
one
cases of British bombers--fying. hundreds of miles home, across enemy country and the sea, po to their engine. Thanks
workman- superb materials and ship R.A.F. engines can go all-out for several hours' with so little risk that our crews have several-
The RAF's "policy of perfeč- proved the value of the "perfec-times decided to cross nearly 200 miles of open sea, with one dead. tton" sometimes earned criticism on policy. from foreign experts before the most stripped of covering. Nearly engine and rudder hard on, rather real air fighting started. To com-two-thirds of its upper covering than land or jump to safe cap pete with Nazi mass-production, was blown off, exposing the skele-ture or internment in enemy of
of ton of the wing, and nearly one neutral country. they said, British standards
Hundreds of stories could bes design, materials and construc-half of the lower covering. Again.
of should have gone into an uncon- safely with great holes blasted in
ton, the highest in the world, by every law of flying, the plane told-of British 'planes returning) should be lowered in favour trollable spin and crashed. Yet, wings and fuselage of Welling sheer numbers.
favour of the R.A.F.-have prov- SO ed the British policy to be right.
strenuously asserted by
A Hurricane, after downing a Channel Nazi Me. 109 over the
from the
one
But the thousands of air bat-somehow, it flew some hundreds ton bombers, whose unique "bas of miles home. To fight again a ket-work" skeleton enables them ties which have raged since
to withstand direct hits which would wreck any Nazi plane with their many-to-one ratio in few days later.
engine reaching home with dangling below the wing raging fires aloft and thousands
of ammunition of rounds ploding without fatal effect.
"But instead one should 'put in a word for the tireless workers; of the Salvage Section of Main
By
of
ex..
A.P. Luscombe tenance Command and for the
Now we read daily of how was suddenly attacked with can Liberals in the nine-enemy 'planes "disintegrate," "fall non and machine-guns
apart" and "ly to bits" after. teenth century.
brief burst of multiple machine- Against this it is not gun fire or a hit by a single can- non-shell, But we also read how only professed Liberals British 'planes have flown hun- dreds of miles home to their who are fighting, but all bases after damage which would Britain. Mr. Winston have "disintegrated" any enemy
'plane. Churchill has expressed
For instance
A' 'heavy his hope that in the years British bomber was making its reconstruction unity run over a Cologne railway yard
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civilian workers Who aid. 'them'. in rushing repairs on our dam- aged machines. Praise for the men and women who made the 'planes should also not be stint- ed.
So efficient are these two or- may be preserved. Is there mediace. A spent explod rear, Bullets pierced the pilot's ganisations that, even at the very Ex-height of the autumn Battle of ed immediately in front of its shoulder, closed one eye. not a possibility that nose. The blast blew in the plosive shells killed his engine, London, the rate of repairs was casualties. front turret, and an unlucky splin-and tore great pieces from his faster than that of those who have persisted ter set off a powerful flare "bomb" wings and tall, so that jagged One of our new 'planes returned in their cultivation of inside the fuselage.
sheets of metal stood out from recently so badly damaged, with "doe- There was a terrific explosion the wings, the rudder was three great holes blasted in wings and avowedly Liberal
Inside" to quote the pilot, which quarters skeleton only and one tall, that it was at times out of HESE FACTS MAKE trines may regain some of wrecked the fuselage, blew off tail wing was only a third cover control. Yet 48 hours after it their ascendancy in the both doors, and tore a great hole ed. Yet this "fying Maypole staggered to a landing, the plane ten feet long and about three feet managed to glide; across 20 miles was repaired, completely over- State, and express their wide in the side. At the same of sea to a safe landing in Eng-hauled, and in action again.
Britain's "hand made" planes distinctive beliefs not online fires began to blaze near a land
man-hours of main petrol tank. By all rights No Messerschmitt with such require more behalf of themselves the plane should have broken up damage could even have retained manufacture per plane than the Nazis but this is offset by the alone, but on behalf of at once. But, despite the great control:
gash in its main framework. Despite their speed the British fact that a far larger proportion democracy?
carried on, just "wallowing a bit fighters are incredibly sturdy One of her total fleet is in fighting There are attributes of because the whole body was aghter pilot, chasing a heavy form at any one time. This, as
twisted."
bomber ran out of ammunition.well as their resistance to pums the finer essence in the The fire extinguished, "wo car refusing to lose his prey hoishment, is another argument in Liberal tradition which ried on and dropped our bombs, edged up until his port wing lay favour of quality before quant since we hadn't made the journey just about the Bomber's massive Britain scores over: Germany will be needed when the for fun! Then, against an 80 tail wing:
yet another point. Goering. war is over Insight into mph. head wind, the crippled
about two years too soon, 50. the inner meaning of de- "plane began a five hour flight The pilot waggled his control San to build his Luftwaffe just Within column and the Hurricane's wing that a large part of his fleet is home to its base
out-of-date. Great aeronauticul mocracy which will en-dew days the plane was repaired slapped down hard and repeated-
ly on the enemy's tall, locking developments were taking place. and flying again. able nations not merely "Almost incredible, this story, it clean off, and sending the bomb at about this time, so that the to reap the obvious fruits but typical of many which have tr down to crash, The Hurricane later R.A.F. planes are technical-
landed, almost undamaged. of victory, but also, as Another big bomber," a "White"
The Nazis have tried to even Lord Meston at the re-ley, was so badly shot-up by A.A.
things up with hasty improvisa- Twin-engined planes are in- tion. By sticking armour on cent Liberal Party con-re that the port wing was al-
tended to keep aloft on one en- here, clumsy gun turrets there, ference suggested, to discriminate revenge, and gine, but only for a short fight heavier engines in planes mcart "guard their hearts to mould their judgments to the nearest emergency land for lighter ones. Even to-day against the bitterness to the planning of a bet-ng ground, for the remaining eh- they are still producing many of gine must be run dangerously "all the types they had before the out." But there have been many war. which clamours for in-ter world.”
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