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News in the air
JET PILOT SAVES LOST PLANE
JAMES STUART
APTAIN William
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R.
Peters, United States Alr Force Thunderjet fighter pilot at Manston, Kent, has been recommend- ed for the U.S. Air Medal for guiding back to Manston a cadet-pilot af the RAF who was lost over tho Channel in bad weather,
The RAF cadet had heen diverted to Manston because of the weather, was lost and run- ning short of fuel. Peters was on a weather reconnaissance Aight and went in search. He was told by radio that the RAF pilot had said he was about to bale out.
Captain Peters- came down
found the low, and
RAF neroplane-o very much slower. machine than his jet Nglitch- heading towards Dover.
Captain Peters, using his diving brakes and flaps, brought his fighter to as slow a speed au he could safely fly and led the British aeroplane back Mansion.
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SEPTEMBER is going to be a big aviation month. Within the first fortnight there is an Anglo-United States nero- nautical conference at Brighton. the International Air Transport Association conference in Lon don, and the Society of British Aircraft Constructors' big British air trade show at Farm- borough.
And the King's Cup Air Race. blotled out by bad weather Hatfield in June; ly likely be held on September 15 to coincide with the last day of the Farnborough show.
BUSINESS
.
men flying be- tween New York and Paris can now dictate their letters high above the Atlantic with- out having their secretaries with them.
Electrical recording apparatus
has been installed In Pan- American Airways airliners an this route, and will probably be put in their aircraft on the New York-London service.
on
Dictation is recorded small, unbreakable discs. which can be sent to the business man's cffice for transcription.
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TOBBY of Lesile D. Sayer, British European Airways radio officer and former Fleet - Air-Arm-filer.-is-dress-design-
Ing.
He takes his
bcok skelch with him whenever he flies to the Continent.
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Off to the Seaside
WITH
ESTORIL.
HAVE just been talk- ing with a young -mai whom many of us, would envy. He lives in a most elegantly comfortable white villa on Portugal's
"sun coast" at Estoril. He had just come in fresh and vigorous from a yachting trip-his study sparkle: with golf and sailing trophies.
The real-life princess he married was out shopping with their two fine
who are doing so awfully well at school.
Wherever he goes he en- joys the privileges of wealth and rank. In London; or course, there is his sulte at Claridges; at Balmoral he goes shooting with the King.
In
And yet, with never a cloud in his sky, the hero of nicial tole is ready to give up this pleasant way of fe favour of an existence fraught with danger, boredom, anxiety, and the burden of other men's politics to carry with a small Ing public face.
“Mum! That man's thrown all our coffee and oranges out of the window,”.
GILES
London Express Hervice
THE SHADOWY FIGURE
BEHIND THOSE
AND GOINGS IN SPAIN
.
Padilla is a nobleman of gained from his Royal bluest blood, one of Spain's service: grandees who take it in turn. a month at a time, to attend a king in exile.
"It was
Navy
of
a funny way helping. And you might have asked me first."
Charles Foley
Axalt the grandees come and go between Madrid and It is pleasant to And Juan Estoril with France's blessing.
Is this a mark of the dieta-thus dropping into the ver
he first comic. nacular. When tor's food. lofentions? Is it.
from Switzerland to Portugal chiata of Spain? Or is it part meant to appease the monar- of the game of probing Juan's mind and confusing his porters? a game Franco ploys so brilliantly.
Don *Juan. the leadling IN short, he wants and expects student of Francolate strategy, before Icog 10 -ascent speaks of the dictator with a
traditionally troublous rueful smile. It is easy to see.
why
the
12-year duel
throne of Spain.
sup-
COMINGS
meets the man in the pictures above, and says: DON JUAN STEPS COOLLY IN A NEW CAT-AND-MOUSE GAME WITH FRANCO
forces
epit
Into
the
the Two years ago, with Pretender, 1 walched Franco
at Lisbon head of the Spanish fleet on a state visit to Portugal. During the stay Juan was personally invited to call on the dicta- ter but prudently refused,
he told I found Inter should that on leaving him' I have run straight into the en Ure Spanish community in Lis- hoa who had been invited to meet. Franco ten minutes inter"
"And Just as well," ine, “breauSO
to
In' other words, the manoeuvre 'was
make it clear that Don Juan had Nur- ried ahead to pay, his tribute to the dictator like any offer loyal Spanlard, '
It was in the same cat-and- mouse spirit that he dealt with
the monarchists in Spain, as-
suring them that he was the most convinced monarchist of
them all.
То prove it, he would Juan's ownership of one royal estate after another, complete with palaces and gardens.
Don: Early in Spain's Civil War to knock on Franco's door hs Spain's need for a king as a publicly restore Juan.
stripling prince, following Included "political rallying point for the his wanted to fight against the advisers and phrase-writers of freedom and order.
Reds. Franco had just taken who tried to bring down the over the leadership of the Nu- walls with a trumpet blast. In the second, Franco
Little would appear to stand between Don Juan and anibitions. As hele of Alfonso XII, Spain's lust king, he
So that when Franco
expectantly
is
Spanish pride towards
the white villa at Estoril,
Nice waiting
Bald décilned Don the only serious claimant to tionalists, and
he was working for the re- Juan's sword with horror: the which rule a realm
Now, speaking his own mind storation, but the moment was Franco
life of Spain's future king was and no longer su self-con- not yet propitious,:: ins proclaimed to be. a king- too precious to be risked. sciously "clad in the glorious
the one hand he gained dom waiting for a king.
The only point of agreement the reputation mantle of monarchy," Juan
for loyal At the end of the Civil War has made his sense of mission was that Juan's heir, Juan
generosity; on the other, He told Franco said Juan must -walt.
Now 14 years 'comport with a practical and Carlos,
old, loaded Juan's finances with his new Cabinet In Madrid the country's pacification. realistic personality.
should go to school in Spain the upkeep of still more castles that it would be its task to
-a concession which Franco in Spain which he cannot use. usher back a king. people
The Fretender is a Jooked
large, has exploited by requesting forceful, well-set-up young that Don Juan himself" should Juan steps coolly,··ainong' man of 38. Hls eyes are renounce his rights in favour the quicksands." He studies THEN, at the end of World War shrewd, his smile is generous, of the boy. How soon will he: come? Britain got the United but he has no time, it is clear, they ask. But things are not so simple in the world of Nations to withdraw their am for nonsense. Juan and Franco. Franco has bassadors in the hope of hasten- kept the prince waiting for Ing. Franco's departure, Know- ing Spanish. pride, Juan his throne a dozen years. They felt this was just the grievance
duelists: are seasoned
who respect each other's skill. Their needed to help Franco stay.. relationship le a complex bind Ernest Bevin, in his last of courtesy cunning.
weeks, admitted to Juun that he had blundered. I only wanted to help you," he said.
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day-to-day reports from his men Izr high vlaces all (The beauty of this plan over. Spain. He realises this from Franco's viewpoint is that summer's bumper harvest Three years ago, Juan took Juan Carlos will not come of and the American help any Franco at his word. He
age under Spanish law until he give Franco a new cuse of cepted an urgent request for a
life. ly 30-in 1987). secret meeting on the future of the monarchy.
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All the tame, Juan belloves Juan left Franco's. destroyer after the meeting, he that he can afford to wait." He took his yacht Into the recognleed an: old shipmate When the time comes I fave Bay of Biscay, broke the royal among the officers. The officer no doubt that he will be reddy In spite of this, and of many
pennant on encountering Fran- saluted and called out:
"AL hostile exchanges, the first
co's flotillas, and boarded the your majesty's command" man to greet you at Juan's Don Juan, telling me of dictator's destroyer for a talk. Point to Juan. thy court, is Counsellor Padil Bevin's confession, cald
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to act, too...
Meanwhile, coming out into the sunlit garden,. I could not resist the thought that Estoril cots a pleasant place to wait in.
(London Express Service)
Ja, who is a member of Fran- could not refrain from reply. The discussion consisted nt. Since then, Franco has con co'p diplomatic corps, and reeing to Britain's Foreign Minis- two monologues. In the first, ceives his salary from Madrid.. ter in the blunt fashion he Juah asserted his claim and
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