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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1989.

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F Adolf Hitler proposes rons of these planes, They were

carrying the

It was one of Anti- quite successful. Comintern Pact as far these machines that bombed the

Deutschland. as bombing Joe Stalin out The pilot who bombed the of the Kremlin, he is taking Deutschland is now in a concen-

TRY THE 10 AND 12 H.P. on quite a tough proposi- tration camp at Perpignan. He

tion.

praised this Russian bomber,

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Schoolboys Strike

are

Precocious children seldom excite admiration. They either bore or annoy. The Diocesan Boys' School students who have gone on strike are not only annoying and boring, but distressing and disloyal. Their action savours more of priggish ness than patriotism. But even allowing for

reasonable motive, the strike cannot claim sympathy. The ringleaders— prefects, whose honour code

a

and to their fellow students.

This

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 from the nearest German border -in East Prussia.

ALL the researches that! Ahave made, conver

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 leon's effort. Few would see deed. home again.

Spain.

or

Unlike

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Cogn. 1029 by Called Facturo Byndicala, Ing.

"Father promised me a coupe if I didn't smoka tili | was 21,"

The old-style diplomats seem to be on

their way out

HAS our

system

The two years of purges play- The Russian Air Force, like all ed more havoc with Russian their other military forces, is de- military, forces than any world

of for ever trotting around Europe signed for defence. The Rus- war could have done.

career diplomats when he was Foreign Secretary, and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald be- sians have from 1,200 to 1,500

broken down? any other war, the fighter planes.

We common soldiers escaped and the Ambassador to the United States for that.

fore him. He was a great one are sending S our The fighter plane is the wea- generals caught it. pon of defence. These Russian

Lord Lothian, a non-professional Now these continual journeys fighter planes are well able to and Russian progress in the air one of the key posts now in professional system has broken Now the purges have ceased diplomat, and Washington is go to make the proof that the deal with the German bombers. can continue.

There is no reason at all why politics.

the whirligig of international down. They proved that in Spain.

It is not the Foreign Minister's job to travel abroad 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 auc- tries. It is the Ambassador's

Europe can produce. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. should represent the highest with Spanish pilots who had sian plane designers are good.

ne Rus cessful Mr. Kennedy as the job. ethics of a school-have been

these fighter plance in

United States Ambassador, and You will note that Mr. Cordell Up to the present they have he is no professional diplomat Hull, the American Secretary of grossly unfair to the good

One of them had shot down copied European and American either.

State, does not have to leave his name of their school, (whose

two of the crack German Heinkel designs, but now they are Yet note how well he has country every few months to do reputation is worth being bombers. I asked him which he branching out on their own lines made his country conscious of a deal. Yet his men abroad are, honoured), to their headmaster,would prefer, a Russian Mosca of development.

the march of events in Europe, for the most part, non-profes- German Messerschmitt pioneers of aviation and now the and courage.

Mr. Glenn Martin, one of the and he represents it with skill sional diplomats.

Why should it be necessary exhibition of anti-fighter plane in a war. He re largest builder of bombers in the plied, "Give me the Russian United States, told me when I

Then there is another

now for so much travelling on career man here in Count the part of our Foreign Minis- visited him at his factory in Grandi, whose conduct of Italy's ters? had previously given their word a that in these This Spanish- pilot -had-been-America that he had several affairs in London has forced: It's no compliment to our to the headmaster to accept his ing school near Moscow. He studying in his works.

And in the news is the dis- Ministers have to be so fre- decision regarding the appoint-spoke highly of their training

įdays of radio and telephone these Glenn Martin believed them missed Litvinov, perhaps the ment of a

told hend prefect, but because it is levelled against u

Spanish pilot had received 100 to be good, and thought that, ablest of all the non-professional quently packing their bags. fellow student, whose only ap- turning to fight in Spain. parent crime was to be born in Formosa, The scapegoat for this unseemly display of childish precociousness is B Chinese, whose sole affiliation to things Japanese is that he was born in Japanese territory. This in it- self is an indication of how far the mentalities of the strikers are removed from the realities of the situation.

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Japanism is doubly misplaced, plane." not only because the ringleaders

normal

But the more important aspect is the direct and impudent challenge to recognised school uuthority. Patriotic emotions

Chinese among

schoolboys, especially in the present state of unheaval in their country, are not only understandable, but lau- dible. This, however, cannot give students unreigned licence to behave petulantly and in what- ever manner they please, parti. cularly when their actions threaten to disrupt school life and discipline.

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 smirch their own honour code. Sir Robert Kotewall's appeal was strikingly phrased, and WO heartily endorse it. We feel confident that it will strike સ responsivo chord among most of

system. He

me each

поп-

hours' instruction before given experience, they would be diplomats.

re- equal to any American plane de- Now it is exceptional for us

MIND you, in theory

It doesn't often.

He also told me that he be signers. In fact, two of Ame-to send # non-professional

-Buch "personal con- lieved Russian fighter planes rica's greatest plane designers diplomat abroad, yet perhaps the tacts" are all right. This "man- equal to any in Europe, and that are Russian. They are Igor most successful of our men were to-man", atuff sounds good, but

taken from outside the ranks of how does it work? their Air Force was a formidable Sikorsky and Seversky. weapon.

I would prefer to be a Rua- the Diplomatic Service. A French engineer has just rather than in Russia.

stan plane designer in America. I give you four big names→

Lord Bryce, Lord D'Abernon, concluded a series of articles on the Russian Air Force. He bad plane goca to jail until he de-

In Russia the designer of a Lord Crewe, and Lord Derby,

line strength of 4,200 mach.nes sign is the price of release. estimates that Russia has a first signs a good one. A good de- and that she is now producing

Grigorvitch, one of their best

* THESE are enough to show that the best

First of all, these journoys 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 which he is subjected either

Ambas-iment.

His figure is one generally ac- or two unsuccessful seaplanes, young attaches and then, if they way, they rob him of his judg. from 400 to 500 planes a month. aviation engineers, produced one diplomats need not begin as bewilder him or tire him. Any- cepted.

A period in prison cured him. are lucky, and up as The figure 4,200 is composed Now he finds it safer to design

sadors or Ministers.

Then, again, the as follows: 1,200-1,500 fighter land-planes.

visiting Indeed, there are quite a few Minister can never forget that planes, 1,500 planes for recon-

people who are not satisfied with ho is a guest, and consequently naissance, 800 planes for ground WITH the purges ended, the present system and argue he is disinclined to raise awk- attack, 400 day bombers, 300

the lot of aviators in that there wouldn't be so many ward, unpalatable questions. four-motored night bombers. Bussin should be good. Every "aurprises" in foreign affairs if On top of all that, ho is never 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- force, but does-not-regard-the-to-have-150,000-trained-pilots. How does it happen that val-of-his-Gabinet other branches of the service as They will have them by 1942. Hitler can send thousands of 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 fly: The beat 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? four-motored night. bombers to an air force training school.

True, the element of surprise affairs have been proved in. would be sitting targets for mo- While the recruiting of pilots diplomacy, but you can't move

is part of the new totalitarian business or the professiona.. dern anti-aircraft guns, since presents no problem, plano pro- large bodies of men

When a big post falla vacant' they travel at only 120 m.p.h. duction is much more difficult.

without the Foreign Secretary usually The Russian light day bomb- The Russians lack skilled la-cerned knowing something about even the Cabinet, about filling someone in the country con-consults the Prime Minister, and ers, however, are much better bour and skilled foremen. Un-t

it. 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-tic system is, of course, that who could represent their coun- Surely they could find mon crease her present production of Ambassadors are not necessarily try batter abroad than it is now

So what is the proposi

tion? That we scrap

the schoolboy strikers (many of bring unhappy repercussions on planes much above 500 a month. chosen for their competence, being represented in some

those involved. In some cases According to our standards Why, anybody who has had foreign capitals 7

whom quite obviously have elther been coerced or led like tho disaffected students have the floor space of the Russian anything to do with some of our Anyway, if the job of diplo sheep into their action), and it reached the most important plane factories should produce embassies and legations abroad matic negotiator has to be done is certain that if they bohave. stage of their school carcers; in many more machines. But the has met mon who could not finally by the Foreign Secretary honourably and courageously, other instances this stage is Russian is a poor mechanic. His manage a wholk stall with any (a politician) then why not give the entire incident can be closed before them. It would be chief characteristic, is a munín success.

the post in the first place to 'without any ill effects either to stupidity in the extreme dell- for tinkering, but when he's got Think of Mr. Anthony Eden politician? the school'e discipline or its berately to prejudico these a machine to pieces he is rarely prestige.

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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