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Battle of Britain 1949

COULD THE

7ITH thousands

other citizens

of

of

Britain, I was kept

awake for several nights [recently by the roar of . heavy bombers passing over- head.

GET

What is its real significance

to the average, man?

The reason: Britain's biggest,

IN PRONOUNCING judg-

post-war exercisca in the air. ment on-the-raida-inunched,

which occupied almost

aircraft the

RAF can NOW

put inlo feld,

the

After the

exercise, 47-

year-old Sir

all the during the exercise on the sou-

By

SIDNEY RODIN

thern half of Britain. the C.-in-C.'s sub- ordinates de- clared them selves "more than entisiled” with the op-

Ball Embry, once a plot with position put up by fighter four DSOs who is now Com pinnes and anti-aircraft forces. ninnder-in-Chiet of Fighter Command, summed up the immediate lessons.

Exercise Foll was the biggest held since the war. Its primary object was to test the alertness and up-to-dateness of the no- hon's defence against sir at- tack.

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Britons Flood New York

-AND THIS IS WHAT THEY SEE

T

From FREDERICK COOK.

HERE are almost as many English accents.

to be heard today along 5th Avenuo as American. New Yorkers by thousands are fleeing the sticky heat that has enveloped the city. But visitors are pouring in.

Some of the sights to be seen:

A city with 40 buildings 30 floors high or more (there are only 20 odd in all the rost of the USA). A bookshop on fashionable 57th Street selling Bibles at 25 percent off.

Drugstores marking down cigarettes to 8d, a packet of 20, and some giving them away as samples.

BOMBERS THROUGH?

ing on of warnings his before peeded up.

The percentage of raiders In- · tercepted, they say, surpassed what they anticipated. The "enemy" were almost always detected and attacked they reached their targets.

Radar worked well. Delee- tion of the enemy and the pass-

C.V.R. Thompson Reports The American Scene

NEW YORK. bands of pegs around which the

with Robert Cannon, & Jos Angeles policeman,

been

Despite the fallure of Terri- torial recruiting, there were enough men to man the guns.

The 8,000 men of the Royal Observer Corps proved efficient,

Mosquitos equipped with their own radar once again did their. war-time Job of nosing night raiders.

Proved superb

out

Meteors and Vampires, two of the fastest Oghters in squadron service in the world, proved superb.

MUCH HAS been learned that will shape future training. And the exercise will

stimulate undoubtedly

RAF

Meteors of the Royal Netherlands Air Force lined up in Southern England to join with the R.A.F. in Exercise Foll.

Flight Lieut. 'Sandy' Patterson (Aberdeen) and Lieut. Herbert Ballinger (Washlugton, U.S.A.) discuss the exercise with Lieut. Bruno Van Gelder, of Dordrecht, Holland, who le in the cockpit

Our assailant might send out

So many chow mein places on one street Off Broadway that

New Yorkers now call it The Burma Road. A chemist'e shop on 35th Street which now has à shoe department.

The thousands who sleep out In the parks, on benches on Broadway, on fire escapes high above the sidewalks.

The

smart hotels begging for business, and circularising neighbouring offices Inviting clerks to drop in for lunch.

The moneylender's office in Columbus Circle with a dollar bill in the window, pinned to a card rending: "I Want to be A-loon."

The Hollywood stars looking over the pictures in Greenwich Village's open-air art exhibi-

tion.

Bing Crosby, in bright yellow slack tindi dark · sunglasses standing on the corner outside- Tiffany's talking about the two hugo

salmon Conado.

he caught in Faye Emerson

ordering sirloin steak instead of. Alet mignons "because I must have the bone for my dog and I gat what my dog cals."

The underwear shops featur- ing, for no reason at all that anyone can explain, a brand. new line: Television Pantics.

Actor? Oh, no

The enr-park attendant just. behind Broadway, who startles. the customers with long quota- tions from Shakespeare, Rostand, Shelley and Keats, but won't three admit that once he

Britain invented radar, first used it in planes at night, and in- vented the jet. Yet so far we have falled to put the things together.

acior.

was an

The Central Park swan whitch will

como fo the bank at once if

There is a temporary stopgup, a re-designed Vampire, but this plane will not be in squadron a man offers food, but fees at service for many months to the sight of a woman.

come.

•

The

woll-kept "formal English

garden" upon the root of the ANOTHER QUESTION hus British Empire Building on Fifth to be asked. Can we with Avenue, home-based radar stations, cope The with the great speed of modern, high-flying bombers?

A time limit.

Should we not have an outer line of radar defence in Europa?

Vampires also flew with the A. NATION-WIDE survey Wool is wound back and forth. enemy to represent daylight fet

just published shows pOMANCE: After her acquifial

bombers. Although flying well that most Americans are fast year on charges of over 500 miles un hour and at either worried or

bored blowing up her wealthy parents, 39,000 feet they were engaged over the growing anti- Beulah Overell, Los Angeles in combat by Meteors before

teenager, said she never wanted assaulting their targets, Communist hysteria in

to see another policeman. She their country.

Is at present honeymooning Concerned that nearly 32 per- cent. of its own, and nearly every other front page, is in BUSINESS: As if British cars citing which In general only 25 bombers, each wirel stores, the New York Times, trouble with the return of afhas reached only two-thirds of atom bomb, and its own target. creases, America's top newspaper, set out buyers' market, some Americans the required ruto. Radar All could converge on our coasts And the results are surprising, have started a whispering cam-operators, for example, who are at the same time but at different

are vitally necessary, Even Chlengo, usually a red Paign against them. A sample

being heights and speeds. bailing centre, complained that rumour is that instead of doing recruited very slowly. Washington Is seeing munist under every bed.

over to spy and anti-Communist

to find the effects of it

all.

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ara not having enough

4. Coin-

35 miles a gallon, which is their -appeal, they do only 10.

In San Francisco and the Far POINTERS for secretaries in a West, most people said the furore is out of all proportion to

poll from business men: De

Little comfort

Unseen targets

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ragged newe-stand pro- prietor on Lexington Avenue, outside a prosperous wineshop, who Is less poverty-stricken than he looks the owns the wineshop as a sidelino).'

Home-mado chianti The New York taxi-driver who claims that, ho-won the VC- in 1914-18 war.

The Italians Kloné First Avenue sitting in the sun play-

drinking canasta, |home-made chianti.

ing

their

The Jawish restaurants down on the Lower East Side which are tearing down their in- flammatory

Zionist signs and

Amodern bomber tying at 30.000 feet can reach the British coast from the point where home-based radar first plots it in about 15 minutes. In another five minutes it can be over London,

UNLESS RADAR range in-specialising again in English-

or there

beet. some style roast

The Germans in Yorkville

at 4 o'clock in the morning in and eating their wiener schnitzels: their steins of beer drinking the little sidewalk cafes. It may be then that we should The lorries parked along the put our radar stations

suburban streets selling for 10s.. out, along the Rhine, and that or so watermelons so big it

revolutionary development in the time limit for interceptions the evolution of fighter planes,

will always be very tight,

right

With modern radlo aid it is the primary object of allied takes a strong man to carrY-

armies should ba to protect one home.

All this the RAF and the unnecessary for the attackers to those stations.

Coinmand

see their targets.

the danger America faces from compatible, but not too com-Anil-Aircraft Communism.

In Boston, people expressed fears that much Washington ac- Hons or snoop into all school text-books, might soon have an

effect on their liberties. .

patible;

can

But there is Uttle comfort for anyone who looks ahead. For Exercise Foll was con- ceived on 1945 lines. It did not

try to anticipate the air wer of

the future,

no baby talk to boy claim, friends on the telephone; dress with decorum, not decollete; take the detalls as well as your head off his shoulders; when the boss's wife calls, be diplomatic.

mon state of Utah and parts of Baruch, unofficial adviser to Only two sections, the Mor- TLDER STATESMAN Bernard the South, supported the three Presidents, has found one "crusade" whole-heartedly. .

who does not want his advice. PINION: Noting the vast in- A spokesman for President Tru- crease in door-to-door pea- man called a speech Mr Baruch lars, the US. Chamber of Com- made warning Washington that merco says: "The housewife is it was gambling with national now finally transferred from a security, "undly informed." standing position in the queue to. the receiving end of another."

WHAT DO experts sny?

Independent

If faced with atom bomb attack, Britain's security, most of them argue, rests entirely on the efficacy of ite. fighter and HOLLYWOOD continues. Its anti-aircraft defences.

trend towards middle-aged TOME: Knitting without stars. They have just signed up Ho

No bomber carrying an atom needles is possible with a Ezio Pinza, 67-year-old singing

bomb should be allowed to device which has just reached star of Broadway's fabulous reach a target This ideal is New York shops. It consists of "South Pacific" for five pictures practically unattainable, a plastic circular frame with two at £25,000 a picture.

agree, but it remains the Ident.

they

They will fly on a beam. They will therefore operato either on a dark night or con- cealed by cloud,

TO

•

Outer circle

INTERCEPT by night centage of enemy or in cloud. airborne radar is reach our territory needed. At present this can be tercepted. operated efficiently only in a two-senter machine.

the

Catching the drought The throngs at Coney Island' and the clouda of sailboats on. the Bay. The Hitler yacht, an- chored in the harbour and at- If radar stations are no fur-fracting no interest whatever. ther out than our own coasts The Broadway crowds who we must expect that a high per- stroll from one cinema to an- plancs will other and stand as long as they before in-car in the lobbies, looking over the stills, because there they catch

ice-cold draughts WHAT PLANS have been coming from the air-conditioned

interiors. made by the heads of the Yet the RAF possesses no Western Union

The brister and briefer sum- Air Force for scuter jet fighter. The bullding up this

shoulder vital outermer dresses, with Mosquito, which carries this circle of Aghter detence?,

straps, which are now worn on It is to be hoped that during the streets but still look like. Exercise Foll

bathing costumer.. this problem

The switch in tastes among exercised the mind of Air Mor- shal Sir James Robb, who com-men, who now wear, less and...- manda Western Union Air Force less violent ties and are turning from his headquarters at Fonto a Londoner's idea of a tie. tainebleau.

---(London: Express Service).

two

equipment, is "too" modern standards.

Blow by

Here is exposed the most perilous gap in our defence A. EXP which Exercise Foll made no attempt to cover up.

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