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The Abdication
CABINET MAY ISSUE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT
IT
is understood that the Cabinet are in communi- cation with Opposition leaders and the Dominion Governments regarding the issue of further informa- tion about the Abdication.
The object would be to clear
up misunderstandings which
may have arisen concerning the France Claims
Duke of Windsor's so-called
"exile" abroad.
Points to be made would, it is Best Air Force understood, include these:— In Europe
1. That on the day King George V. dled-January 20, 1930-4};c then Prince of Wales expressed a desire to make way for his younger brother, the present Kluz; and
2. That after Edward had ab- dicated he himself declared thus he would go abroad and remain 'abroad for at least three years.
These events were not disclosed during the debate in Parliament, as they were not relevant to the issue of marriage on which the abdication was based.
WANTED FULLER LIFE
The early desire of the heir to the Throne to adblcate his rights in favour of his brother was conveyed to the then Duke York and to Ministers at Sandringham at the Privy Council which was held there on the day of King George's death.
With an increase of 33 per cent. in the last year, and a vast modernisation programme France believes that sho nów possesses the strongest air farco in Europe, if not in the world, reports the Paris corres- pondent of the Evening Stand- ard,
Always among the leaders in the development of this war arm, France bad mide sweeping strides in the last twelve months to perfect her air force, "By its organisation, the equipment
Its officers and possesses, and
men. our nir force deserves the confidence that has been placed in it to carry out ils part in defending the country."
In those words M. Pierre Cot, Mini- ster of Air,
of the value of reason his temperamental inability France's air arm at the moment. to become a "vaticanised" monareli, While declining
figures on quote in the sense that he desired a fuller existing equipment or personnel M. private life than that which tradi- Cot offered ample evidence to con-
is more tion and custom could allow him. firm that France's air force
It was This was not the first time that than a third stronger than the Prime Minister, then Mr. Bald- twelve months ago, when it was re- win or the Archbishop of Canterbury presented as one of the strongest on had heard that. They assured him, the Continent. however, that they realised had changed, and that they prepared to meet him more halfway.
The Prince of Wales gave as his ment via surmed up the Govern-
ilmes were
to
"In June 1936," M. Cot said, "at best only 6 per cent. of the equipment than was of the type decided upon by the Government in 1933 and adopted by the Chumber in 1934.
After Edward had become King hei continued to reside at York House and at Fort Belvedere, using Buck- Ingham Palace largely as an office. So that the Cabinet claim that they kept their word in "devaticanising" the King.
HOW FAR BACK CAN YOU
REMEMBER ???
MAGNIFICENT RESERVE
"Now this programme has not only been completed, but a new plan, proposed by the General Staff and adopted by the Government, calling for construction of large numbers of modern airplanes, has been corried out. This has permitted us to obtain an increase of 110 per cent, in the number of latest-type airplanes as compared with 1930 and more im- portant un increase by 200 per cent. in the striking force of bombardment squadrons
M. Cot said that France in future will have a "magnificent reserve of youth consisting of 150 groups of students, numbering 10,000, who al- |ready have 25,000 flying hours to their credit, 1,200 ileensed pilots of the first degree and 500 of the second degree."
£90,000 Home For Tank
Corps
WHAT is your first child- hood memory? Psychologists place the age of two as the earliest when con-
An elaborate scheme for the re- sciousness records impressions that remain as memories in adult construction of the Royal Tank Corps depot at Bovington-Bri- life, but people who can rememtain's most important tank centre, ber authenticated events so far: back are rare.
Mr. George Lansbury. ALT seventy-eight-year-old Socialist poll- tician, is one of them.
"I can remember, the firing of a row of workmen's huts while the railway was being built at Syden- ham. This is my earliest recollec- tion," writes Mr. Lansbury, who was then about two years old.
Mr. Henry Ford's carly memory not so good. He recalls walking hand in hand with his mother at the age of three years and nine months to see a song-sparrow's nest under a log near their home in Greenfield, Michigan.
and the radial point of the Army's fighting vehicles--has recently been commenced.
In pursuance of its policy of doing nway with hutted camps, the War Oce has given orders for the aboli- tion of the old style of Army huts there. Brick buildings designed on the Intest lines will take their place, though the scheme will take years to complete.
Some
It was in the early years of the Great War that Bovington Camp, situated in the heart of the beautiful heath which Agures Hardy's novels, was chosen as Bri- tain's "tank metropolis.”
in Thomas
GYMNASIUM AND CHURCH
Mr. John D. Rockefeller, who died To approach it one passes either recently at the age of ninety-four, Woolbridge Farm-Immortalised i recalled the brook on his grand-"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" or else mother's farm at Richford, Tioga the cottage where Lawrence of Arabin County, New York, and how careful lived at the time of his death. And it he had to be keep away from it. was at Bovington that Lawrence did
writing "I could not have been more than much of his four," he said, "because we moved with the RT.C. away from Richford when I was that age."
wille serving
Men at Dovington, are now to be housed in quarters much more com- fortable than in the past. They speak of it as a "luxury camp" of the future, which I am told is a very apt descrip- tion.
W. E. Gladstone, Victorian states- man, had a prodigious memory of his childhood days. But once at a house party one of his friends capped his amazing recollections by the tallest commodious story of the kind on record:-
"I was twelve months old, Iying]
A start has just been made upon a three-storey building
which will incorporate barrack- room, sitting-rooms, dining hall, Various utility rooms. This bullding alone will cont £90,000 and will probably be com- pleted by April 1939. It will accom-
In my ent, when the nurse came in cook-house, and with milk at my feeding time, I watched her refill my bottle with out taking the precaution to wash it as my mother always did,
"I remember making thin resolu tion: When I learn to talk I will tell my mother about that careless nursof
modate 080 soldiers.
In another part of the camp a large number of semi-detached dwelling- uses are now in course of erection. Many
of these are expected to be ready for occupation by married Ninety-live-year-old General Sir families at Christmas. Bindon Blood is another famous A gymnazium costing £5,000 and a man whose first memory goes back new church are also part
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One Rose, No Regrets, There's a New World.
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F654-Old Fashioned Dances, Jolly Brothers Veleta
Blaze Away Military Two Step, Old Fashioned Walizes.
PLAYED BY HERMAN DAREWSKI & HIS BALLROOM ORCH. 8055-Gay 90's Waltz Medley.
PLAYED BY PRIMO SCALA'S ACCORDION-BAND.
8528-Nellie Dean, After the Ball. Dalay Bell.
For Old Time's Sake.
C1532-Good Old Songs
C2704-DRINKING SONGS
.SUNG BY FLORRIE FORD.
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A long way. He remembers watch-scheme. At present church services ing oat cakes being cooked on a are held in the garrison recreation- griddle in an old Scotilah kitchen, at room, which is also used for dancing the age of two, In 1844.
and other recreative purposes.