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F Adolf Hitler proposes rons of these planes. They were
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Schoolboys' Strike
Precocious
children seldom excite admiration. They either bore or annoy. The Diocesan Boys' School students who have not only on strike are gone annoying and boring, but are distressing and disloyal. Their action savours more of priggish- ness than patriotism. But even allowing for 1 reasonable motive, the strike cannot claim sympathy. The ringleaders prefects, whose honour code
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ethics of I school-bave been grossly unfair to the good
name of their school (whose reputation ig worth being honoured), to their headmaster,
praised this Russian bomber,
If Hitler attacks Moscow he but complained that it was apt may be caught as Napoleon was, to catch fire in the air.
For Moscow is about 600 miles ᎪᏞ LL the researches that
from the nearest German border
I have made, conver-| -in East Prussia.
sations, readings, and calcula- All the way through Poland tions, convince me that the Rus- and over Russian territory on sinn Air Force was much strong- their way to Moscow the Ger- er in 1936 than at the present man bombers would be attacked. time.
On their return journey this It was no war that reduced the process would be repeated.. strength of the Russian forces. The retreat after a bombing It was suicide. Their own police raid would be much like Napo- the Ogpu-perpetrated that Icon's effort. Few would see deed. home again.
The two years of purges play- The Russian Air Force, like ali ed more havoc with Russion their other military forces, is de military forces than any world signed for defence. The Rus- war could have done. sians have from 1,200 to 1,500 fighter planes.
Spain.
He re-
Unlike any other war, the common soldiers escaped and the generals caught it.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
VALERIE
© Dege: 1839 37 tinkled Feature Brudiendo, Zan,
By Lichty
"Father promised me a coupo if I didn't smoke till 1
was 21."
The old-style diplomats seem to be on
their
broken down? We are
way out
HAS our system of for ever trotting around Europe career diplomats when he was Foreign Secretary, and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald be- our fore him. He was a great one sending as Ambassador to the United States for that, Lord Lothian, a non-professional
Now these continual journeys Now the purges have ceased-diplomat, and Washington is go to make the proof that the and Russian progress in the air one of the key posts now in professional system has broken
the whirligig of international down. There is no reason at all why politics.
United States, told me when I career
It is not the Foreign Minister's job to travel abroad
ters?
The fighter plane is the wea- pon of defence. These Russian fighter planes are well able to deal with the German bombers. can continue. They proved that in Spain.
WHILE in Barcelona the Russian Air Force should London is a key post, too, and to negotiate with other coun- and Madrid I talked not be equal to anything that here we have the highly suc- tries. It is the Ambassador's
Europe can produce. ine Rus- cessful Mr. Kennedy as
the job, with Spanish pilots who had sinn pinne designers are good. United States Ambassador, and You will note that Mr. Cordell
these fighter planes in
Up to the present they have he is no professional diplomat Hull, the American Secretary of two of the crack German Heinkel branching out on their own lines made his country conscious of a deal. Yet his men abroad are, State, does not have to leave his One of them had shot down copied European and American either.
designs, but now they are Yet note how well he has country every few months to do bombers. I asked him which he would prefer, a Russian Mosca of development.
the march of events in Europe, for the most part, non-profes- and to their fellow students.
Mr. Glenn Martin, one of the and he represents it with skillsional diplomats. or a German Messerschmitt pioneers of aviation and now the and courage.
Why should it be necessary This exhibition of
fighter plane in a war. anti-
plied, "Give me the Russian largest builder of bombers in the Then there is another non-now for so much travelling on Japanism is doubly misplaced,
plane."
man here in Count the part of our Foreign Minis not only because the ringleaders This Spanish pilot had been visited him at his factory in Grandi, whose conduct of Italy's
America that he had several affairs in London has forced It's no compliment to our had previously-given-their-word taught-to-fly-in-Russia at a fly-Russian Government engineers tribute even from anti-Fascists, Diplomatie Service that in these And in the news is the dis-Ministers have to be so fre- days of radio and telephone these Glenn Martin believed them missed Litvinov, perhaps the head prefect, but because it is lovelled against a
Spanish pilot had received 100 to be good, and thought that, ablest of all the non-professional quently packing their bags.
given experience, they would be diplomats. hours' instruction before re- fellow student, whose only ap-turning to fight in Spain.
equal to any American plane de- Now it is exceptional for us parent crime was to be born in
MIND you, in theory He also told me that he be- rica's greatest plane designers diplomat abroad, yet perhaps the tacts" are all right. This "man-
signors. In fact, two of Ame-to send a non-professional
such "personal con-- Formosa. The scapegoat for lieved Russian fighter planes Russian. They are Igor most successful of our men were to-man" stuff sounds good, but this unseemly display of childish equal to any in Europe, and that are precociousness
taken from outside the ranks of how does it work? ig # Chinese, their Air Force was a formidable Sikorsky and Seversky. whose sole affiliation to things weapon.
I would prefer to be a Rus-the Diplomatic Service. Japanese is that he was born in A French engineer has just rather than in Russia.
sian plane designer in America I give you four big names—~ Japanese territory. This in it- concluded a series of articles on
Lord Bryce, Lord D'Abernon, self is an indication of how far the Russian Air Force. He bad plane goes to jail until he de-
In Russia the designer of a Lord Crewe, and Lord Derby. the mentalities of the strikers estimates that Russin has a first- signs a good one. A good de- are removed from the realities line strength of 4,200 machines sign is the price of release. of the situation.
and that she is now producing
to the headmaster to accept his ing school near Moscow. He decision regarding the appoint-spoke highly of their training studying in his works.
system. He
ment of a
school life and discipline.
told me
each
Grigorvitch, one of their best
It doesn't often.
First of all, these journeys of a Foreign Minister are hurried affairs, so once he arrives in the foreign capital he begins to think. about going home again.
Then all the junketings to bewilder him or tire him. Any- which he is subjected either
Ambas-ment.
-
1
So what is the proposi-- tion? That we scrap
THESE are enough to But the more important aspect from 400 to 500 planes a month. aviation engineers, produced one diplomats need not begin as show that the best is the direct and impudent His figure is one generally ac- or two unsuccessful seaplanes. young attaches and then, if they way, they rob him of his judg- challenge to recognised school cented. authority.
A period in prison cured him. are lucky, end up as Patriotle emotions Chinese schoolboys,
The figure 4,200 is composed Now he finds it safer to design sadors or Ministers.
Then, again, the among
visiting: as follows: 1,200-1,500 fighter land-planes.
Indeed, there are quite a few Minister can never forget that especially in the present state of unheaval in their country, arenaissance, 800 planes for ground planes, 1,500 planes for recon-
people who are not satisfied with he is a guest, and consequently not only understandable, but lau- attack, 400 day bombers, 300
WITH the purges ended, the present system and argue he is disinclined to raise awk dible. This, however, cannot give four-motored night bombers.
the lot of aviators in that there wouldn't be so many ward, unpalatable questions. students unreigned licence to
Russia should be good. Every "surprises" in foreign affairs if On top of all that, he is never behave petulantly and in what-
In his survey of the Russian effort is now made to encourage some of our Ambassadors were sure that when he gets home Air Force he praises the fighter aviation. The Government wish better at their jobs,
again he will receive the appro-- over manner they please, parti-force, but does not regard the to have 150,000 trained plots. How does it happen that val of his Cabinet. cularly when their actions
Hitler can send thousands of threaten to disrupt normal other branches of the service as They will have them by 1942.
equal to European standards. From the age of nine to fifteen soldiers into Austria or Czecho
The reconnaissance planes and Russian boys are encouraged to Slovakia, or Mussolini ship an night bombers of the Russians build model planes. From fifteen army across the Adriatic to he looks upon as inferior to those to eighteen the youths can learn Albania without our knowing the professional diplomats and. of other great nations.
to. By. The best of these after anything about it until it has appoint men whose knowledge of people and whose conduct of He points out that their large learning to fly airplanes are sent taken place?
True, the element of surprise affairs have been proved in. four-motored night bombers to an air force training school. would be sitting targets for mo. While the recruiting of pilots is part of the new totalitarian business or the professions. dern anti-aircraft guns, since presents no problem, plane pro-large bodies of mon
|diplomacy, but you can't move When a big post falls vacant without the Foreign Secretary usually they travel at only 120 m.p.h. duction is much more difficult.
The Russian light day bomb.
someone in the country con-consults the Prime Minister, and The Russians lack skilled la- corned knowing something about even the Cabinet, "about filling. ers, however, are much better bour and skilled foremen. Un-t. than the heavy night bombers. til Russia can provide skilled la- The weakness in the diploma- In Spain there were a few squad- bour she will not be able to in- tio system is, of course, that who could represent their coun--.
Surely they could find crease her present production of Ambassadors are not necessarily try better abroad than it is now bring unhappy repercussions on planes much above 500 a month. chosen for their competence, being represented in BOTIG those involved. In some cases According to our standards why, anybody who has had foreign capitals? the disaffected students have the floor space of the Russian anything to do with some of our Anyway, if the job of diplo- reached the most important plane factories should produce embassies and legations abroad matic negotiator has to be done. stage of their school careers; in many more machines. But the has met men who could not finally by the Foreign Secretary other instances this stage is Russian is a poor mechanic. His manage a whelk atall with any (a politician), then why not givo. before them. It would bo chief characteristic is a mania success.
the post in the first place to a stupidity in the extreme, dell for tinkering, but when he's got Think of Mr. Anthony Eden politician ? berately to prejudice, these a machine to pieces ho is rarely careers simply because of a mis able to put it together again. On the other hand, a con-guided display of misdirected
The vast quantity of derelict tinuance of the strike must patriotism. ›
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According to our information, the trouble has been brewing for some time, and the headmaster has acted with patience and great forbearance. The response of the ringleaders has been to laugh at his good offices, to usurp school authority, and to amirch their own honour code. Sir Robert Kotewall's appeal was strikingly phrased, and We heartily endorse it. We feel confident that it will strike n responsive chord among most of the schoolboy strikers (many of whom quite obviously have elther been coerced or led like sheep into their action), and it is certain that if they behave honourably and courageously, the entire incident can be closed without any ill effects either to the school's discipline or its prestige.S
it.
men.
by EMRYS JONES