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Across the Atlantic

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at last complete for the institution of а regular air-mail service between

the United States and Europe. The first of the new flying-boats already used on the trans-Pacific service between Hongkong and San Francisco arrived at Lisbon to-day on the initial flight. The route followed was by way of the

Azores, and from Lisbon the Clipper will fly to Marseilles. The total journey is timed to take 35 hours. This is longer by nearly half a day than the direct route to the Irish coast, which has been agreed on for the joint | Anglo-American service, to be opened, when Imperial Airways can get the neces- sary machines.

It is true that the regular transport of mails across the North Atlantic will at first be only seasonal; but who can doubt that meteoro- logical difficulties will be overcome just as decisively as trans-oceanic distances have been? We are already. in sight of the day when letters posted on Hongkong will be delivered in London within 2 days and in New York in 3 days. We may say, wit. Theseus in the play, "Now is the mural down between the.

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SOMETHING MORE LIKE

AN UMBRELLA

MADRID SURRENDERS

BOUT two and a half.. years ago a man who had been blinded by a shell-burst climbed pain- fully, trailing a crutch, up the cold stone staircase of Madrid's Ministry of War. He was lean- ing on the shoulder of a militia- man who had left his sentry post to aid him."

At the top of the stairs, in n corridor it only by a dying candle, were two officers: one was giving final instructions to the other, off to the front,

"Yes, it is General Mlaja," said the sentry.

"General Mlaja," called the blind man.

--"What do you want of me?" "Nothing, except this: to say to you, Salud, and courage) *** And the blind man turned to face the stairs again.

much

That incldcht has in it some of the spirit of Madrid, from Novem- ber, 1936, through nearly thirty months of siege. There have been, in the world's tormented history. many great sleges, and their stories Include much hunger and heroism.

But there has never been a story greater than that of Madrid.

It is n

is a story not of generals, but of ordinary anonymous

men, not well-organised or well-equipped, not showing their quality in a few hours' exciting action, but in month after month of enduranco and the refusal to despair,

When most men have forgotten why wars were fought they will remember, from the Great War, Verdun, where was first said, "The hall not pass; and they will, remember

in the way Madrid'e many-voiced "no pasaran.".

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We who took part in the defence

B.B.C. Plan All Britain Television TELEVISION is to become a

nation-wide service as soon as possible, said Mr. F. W. Ogilvie, B.B.C. Director-General, Flying the oceans has - opening, the B.B.C.'s travelling deid become almost a com-exhibition at Liverpool recently. monplace achievement, yet "We have been hard at it for two it is only 20 years since the pioneer crossing of Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Brown, and only twelve years since Sir Charles Kingsford Smith made his name famous by the first, trans-Pacific crossing.

At this rate, we may even catch up with the most daring imagination of H. G. Wells.

years," he said,-and-we have now. come to a critical landmark, We resources not 'merely with a view to the benefit of a thirty or forty mile radius around

have developed the

London, but as a nucleus of a national system.

"The speed at which we can go forward depends on two things; the result of technical experience, and finance: The B.B.C. do not get the whole of the 109. paid for ench licence.

"From the time broadcasting be gon until the end of 1930, licences have produced £30,000,000," : Of that)

nmount the BBC have had only

£21,000,000, the Government taking the other £18,000,000,′′ ***

-by-

Tom Wintringham

who was at one time in command of the English battalion of the International Brigade fighting in Spain.

of Madrid find it hard to bolleve that the story has ended. But on the other hand we find it un- believable that it has gone on so long. Human flesh and blood could not, surely, have endured the January of 1037, and the January of 1938, and the January of 1939.

Meat, butter, milk, eggs, became things you remembered from your childhood. There was no fuel, and Madrid is the highest capital in Europe: the wind comes down on It from mountains where there is always snow. And at any moment the shells might start again.

At any moment death from a clear sky could tear to a pitiful bundle of rags, wife, child, friend, lover, or your own body. You had forgotten the war for an hour: had 'como into Madrid for a day's leave, had gone to the cinema. And then the shalls began....

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Men and women who can endure that strain for years make us proud that such courage exists in human beings. And we in Britain can be proud also that a handful of our men stood with the Repub- lic's militia when they turned to hold Madrid.

As General Franco's troops stormed the south-western suburbs of the city, on the second Bunday in November, 1934, the frst of the International Brigado

Via,

marched into the Gran Spain's Piccadilly. And with them were fewer than a dozen "English" as they always called us, even if wo were Scottish, Irish, Welsh, or from the Empire.

That night, Just behind the front Une, these fads spent the whole night learning how to handle and how to repair the old machine-gun they had been given.

Next day, before action began. that gun was taken away and they were given another type: a Lewis gun such as the B.E.F. used. They were well pleased.

They used that gun and other weapons well. And two-thirds of

them are dead,

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But they were replaced. More English came. In December there were three such groups, in January a full company, in February a bat- talion. I took them into action hurriedly, early in February, 1937, to help in stopping General Franco's biggest drive aimed at surrounding Madrid.

Within an hour's Sghting wo found that there was a gap in our line of three miles to the south of us, and that the battalion on our right had been pushed back. We held, somehow, giving a zew hun- dred yards, till the gaps were filled and the "big push" stopped. The last road lato Madrid was safe.

That cost English lives, men who were my friends. But I think tho

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this year.**

dead would say, as those crippled for life have said, that it was worth

1t.

It is not easy for anyone in Britain to be proud of non-inter- vention, of the policy of the British. Government throughout the war. in Spain. We feel that these men who died thero were better repre- sentatives of Britain than tho Government that denied them and their Spanish comrades the arms zecessary for victory.

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From the ridge the British battalion frst held you can look along a river-gorge and Madrid's houses shine white in the sunlight. Wo shall look back along the corridor of the years to shining signal.------ the defence of Madrid as to a

That signal does not only mean. to us, that men can still endure and doty agony.

It also means something nearer and more prac- tical; that Fascism is not so strong ns it pretends to be.

Judged by any ordinary military standards General Franco should have been able to surround Madrid and take it in two months. He could not do so for two years.

That upset the time-table for the Fascist conquest of Europe. It gave the peoples of Europe a breathing-space in which to see, and prepare to deal with, the menace that now threatens so many of them.

And the defence of Madrid has mado clear the basle werkness of a totalitarian-armed force. This weakness is not lack of courage: they have plenty of brave men. It is lack of initiative. Buch forces are drilled to obey only and all the time, never to think for themselves, never to act on their own.

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Madrid's militia, weary, hungry, and in rags, opposing with ma- chine-guns, twenty years old, the up-to-date and overwhelming armament of their opponents, have proved-living or dying, holding or defeated — that democracy can make men stronger than the Fas- clots.

Ignorant men but desperately enger to learn; untrained men, but adding to obedience a great desire to use all that was in them for the. shared purpose, the aim that

Was fully theirs as well as their com- manders-these men anade them- selves and thir city so strong that General Franco wisely, from March, 1937, to March, 1030, avoided any serious attack upon Madrid..

What will happen now no one can tell.The people of Madrid' have had hope, for two years; hope is a fire that can smoulder after. defeat, oven after massacres. In Madrid's to this to the end of a ́chapter, not the whole of

the tale. But whatever the bitterness of surrender and defeat -wo» can count this chapter noble. Men and women have resisted, up to and beyond their powers, what they believed to be ov

Of that resistance the heart; uns broken amid the broken houses,

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