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Across the Atlantic

ARRANGEMENTS are

at last complete for the institution of a 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

Moutrie Pianos followed was by way of

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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, with Theseus in the play, "Now is the mural down between the neigh- bours:"

Flying the oceans has in- deed become almost a com- monplace achievement, yet 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.

SOMETHING MORE LIKE AN UMBRELLA

MADRID SURRENDERS

BOUT two and a half years ago a man who had been blinded by 3 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 a 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 Moja," said the sentry.

"GeneralTM Minja," called tho blind man.

"What do you want of me? "Nothing, except this: to say to you, 'Salud, and couragel"" And the blind man turned to face the stairs again,

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Tant incident has in it some of the spirit of Madrid, from Novem- ber, 1930, 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 much heroism. But there has never been a story greater than that of Madrid.

It is a story not of generals, but of ordinary anonymous men, not well-organised or well-equipped, no!

their quality in a few showing hours' exciting action, but in .month after month of endurance

and the refusal to despair.

When most men have forgotten why wars were fought they will still

remember, from the Great War, Verdun, where was first said, "They shall not pass"; and they will remember ́ ́ in the same way. Madrid's many-voiced #4 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, opening the B.B.C.'s travelling exhibition at Liverpool recently. ; "We have been hard at it for two years," he said, "and we have now

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come to a critical Jandmark. have developed the resources..not merely with a view to the benefit of a thirty or forty mile radius around London, but as a nucleus of a national system.

"The speed at which we can go forward depends on two things; tho result of technical experience,

and finance. The B.B.C. do not get the whole of the 10s. pold for each licence...

At this rate, we may even catch up with the most daring imagination of H. G. mount the B.B.C. have had only Wells.

"From the time broadcasting be- 'gan until the end of 1938, -licences have produced £30,000,000. Of that

**£31,000,000, the Government”laking

the other £10,009,090.!

-by-

Tom Wintringham

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

of Madrid and it hard to believe that the story has ended. But on the other hand we And It un- believable that it has gone on so long. Human flesh and blood -could-not, surely,-havo-endured the January of 1837, 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 ngain.

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

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Men and women who can enduro 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.

Ar General Franco's troops stormed the south-western suburbs of the city, on the second Bunday in November, 1930, the frat of the International Brigade

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

the

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

British marched into the Gran

Via, battalion arst held you can look Spain's Piccadilly. And with them along a river-xorgo and see were fewer than a dozen "English" Madrid's houses shine white in the -as they always called us, even if sunlight. We shall look back we were Scottish, Irish, Welsh, or along the corridor of the years to from the-Empire.

-the-defence-of-Madrid ́as to a That night, just behind the shining signal. front line, these lads spent the whole night learning how to handle and how to repair the old machine-gun they had been given. That signal does not only mean, Next day, before action began, to us, that men can still endure It also means that gun was taken away and they and defy agony. were given another type: a Lewis something nearer and more prac- gun such as the BEF. used. They tical; that Fascism is not so strong were well pleased.

as it pretends to be, They used that gun and other weapons well. And two-thirds of them are dead,

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But they were replaced. Мого

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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

English came. In December there the Fascist conquest of Europe. It' were three such groups, in January gave the peoples of Europe n a full company, in February a bat- breathing-space in which to see, talion.. I took them into action and prepare to deal with, the hurriedly, early in February, 1937,

menace that now threatens so.

to help in stopping General many of them. Franco's biggest drive aimed at surrounding Madrid.

And the defence of Madrid has made clear the basic weakness of This a totalitarian armed force. Within an hour's fighting wo found that there was a gap in our

weakness is not lack of courage: line of three miles to the south of they have plenty of brave men. It us, and that the battalion on our is lack of initiative. Such forces right had been pushed back. We are drilled to obey only and all the held, somehow, giving a fow hun-time, never to think for themselves, dred yards, till the gaps were filled never to act on their own. and the "big push" stopped. The last road Into Madrid was safe.

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

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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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, havo proved-iving or dying, holding or defeated that democracy can make men stronger than the Fas- clato,

Ignorant men but desperately eager 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 manders-these men made them- selves and thir city so strong that General Franco wisely, from March, 1037, to March, 1930, avoided any serious attack upon Madrid.

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What will happen now no one can tell. The people of Madrid have had hope, for two years; hope is a fire that can moulder after defeat, avon after massacres. In Madrid's life this

is the end of a not the whole of the tale, But whatever the bitterness of surrender, and defeat, "wa cari count this chapter noble. Men and women have resisted, up to and beyond their powers, what they bailoved to be evil, te

chapter,

Of that realstance the heart, tin- broken "amid" the broken houPO

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