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UNFAIR ATTLEES

Are air giants worth while?

by

Group Captain

H. S. L. DUNDAS, DSO, DFC.

FTER more than five years' preparation, the 180-

ton Brabazon airliner has flown.

In the past, what has been the fate of sonsa- tionally largo aeroplanes? Generally they have been a flop.

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Biggest before the war was Germany's DO-X, which weighed 50 tons, carried 50 passengers.

After three years of round-the-world flag-waving its

great hulk was retired to a Berlin museum.

. In 1942 the Americans built the Mars, a 70-ton flying boat. This still files and has broken all records by carrying 308 passengers nt a time.

But airline operators have shown no interest in buying the boat.

Why? Because the Mars is too big to be a good commercial proposition..

Flown once

A second monster flying boat, the Hercules, has been built in the US.

All the world is watching the quarrel botwoon Stalln and Tito. Who Is Tito, and what sort of man is he? To-day thoso questions are answored in fall by Fitzroy Macloan, the Tory MP whom Churchill sent to Yugoslavia

THE MAN WHO DEFIES STALIN

By CHARLES WINTOUR

T was midnight at Che- quers in July 1943. Winston Churchill turn- ed from a Walt Disney cur- toon to give a young lieut.- colonel instructions to carry out one of the most hazar- dous missions entrusted to one man during the whole course of the war.

The ofteer was Fitzroy Muc- lean, a Tory MP with varied expirience of diplomatic and inliitary service. He was to parachute Into Yugoslavia os a "daring Ambassador-leader to the hardy and hunted guerillas" led by mysterious figure

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Directed by GEORGE MARSHALL known as Tito.

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MACLEAN

Eton: Cambridge: The Foreign

Office: Tory politics

the mountains. Nearly

whether Yugoslavia

Maclean would be

obviously found independent or part of the much to respect in Tito. In Soviet Union, he hesitated be the first place Tito-Broz wes fore replying: "You must re- not just n political lender. He member the sacriflees which was the very fountain-heart of we are making in this struggle the Partisans' military resis for our independence. You tance to llie Germans. He

need not suppose that we shall hnd organised t froni the lightly east away a prize which first. He gave the orders for has been won at such cost." both the broad Atrategy and. when need be, for tacticat It was due to his capacity dispositions as well. Io do. for giving orders that Josip minated his. headquarters and Broz, as he was born, received gained the absolue loyally of the nickname by which he is his entire command. known to the world.

Broz

the Was

was set free

TOUCHY

11

MITO'S patriollarn

A COR-

The

that

TITO

He speaks English: he has a bust of Napoleon on kis desk.

was at Council which had conferred

Tko Was Stephen Clissold, one

Backed by Howard Hughes,

It weighs 200 tons, was designed for 700, passengers, took five years to build, cast £6,380,000. It has flown once: a half-mila hop just above the waler. Now comes the Brabazon. It is no bigger than America's Conso11- dated B36, which has been fy- ing .for months and is in quantity production for the U.S. Air Force.

With its great range and load- carrying capacity

the B30 is the most formidable bomber in the world.

But it is impossible to comi- pare civil and military nero- planes because costs aro not material to the operation of o bomber.

Will it pay?

My bet is that the Brabazon will never pay its way.

It cannot hope to run at a prodit unless its 100 passenger seats

Alled are

for every Journey.

Scheduled Oghts must Icave Irrespective of the seats booked,

of and the cost of empty places

honour and ture in his book Whirlwind.

Д

In

A

Perhaps this omission points

diplomatie defect

Approaches. Tito's

mount up to thousands

of

For this reason airline opera- tors are swinging to the belief that it is better to own a large fleet of medium-sized planes than a smaller fleet of glante.

Uneconomical

that believe

American of his Oversens Airways are worried about their contract to buy more Bocing Stratocruisers,

son of Cront peasant and was taken prisoner by the Russians when fighting in the Brst world war times engagingly naive Mac- this honour, (Some sources say that he de- lean raporta berted.) In 1917, at the time of invariably touchy on any mat- Maclean's staff In Croatia, in the Brabazon, and diversions the Bolshevik Revolution, he ter which could possibly imply gives a rather different ple-due to bad weather, would soon

the and volunteered a slight on for service with the Red prestige of Yugoslavia, an as- Tito himself had designed the pounds. ing a guerilin war together in Army. The war over, he re- peet of his character which uniform with great car---A

Russians 20 turned to Yugoslavio,

have bluntly fact which the new Marshal He was to discover whether years aeparated them-Maclean vert to Communismi.

falled to humour. Macican, apparently concealed front Tito's men, Partisans, or the was born in 1911, Tito in 1892.

on the other hand, seems to Maclean. Chetniks, led by General

furn In the kingdom of Yugoslavia have been able to

this Mihailovitch, were killing most Eton and Cambridge education, Broz,

WIL his Scottish upbringing, this doctrine WGS

illegal: native pride to advantage by to a prominent agitator, suggesting, on appropriate oc- Germans, and to suggest menos

Foreign Office training and was given by which the British Govern-

a long gol sin castons, that come

of Eastern course ment could help them to kill Tory polities Maclean apparent tence. When freed he became action was hardly suitable for ruthlessness and hasty temper I

common with one of the Communist Inter- a civilised nation. ly had little in

are barely mentioned. the benevolent aspect who cont the ruthless Communist guer national organisers A few weeks after this ap- rilla leader.

volunteers, from n$1

Again, OVCI

unlike most Com- despotism which stressed. Tilo possessed propriately.. bizarre.. Introduction

Europe to fight in the Inter- munists

which The flaw es In the author's seat-70 passengers and-have-a- his

Macican

national

the sense of humour, job,

Brigade In new

Spanish Civil War. parachuted into the Bosnian

Bd-lounge. mountains. During the next 18 months he met Tite almost daily, goining an insight into the character of the Yugoslavian dictator which has been granted to no other. Westerner.

The description of Tito which

got the job. book, Eastern Bives in his Approaches juzi published Yet Tito was no

"You will do this," said the (Cape, 155.), is therefore

_of_the_Comintern. Its readiness new organiser, and you that." This sense of fascinating Interest and gals to take decisions on his own Or in Serbo-Croat, "Ti, to; tl, not embrace it fan added Importanco now that initiative

Maclean to." Broz repeated this brusque which the Partisans Tito is battling ones again for at once. On their first meet- order so often that the words tured from the Germans and tell the story with haif Mac-for De Havilland's 30-scat jol- his country's independence and Ing he admitted that his ulti- stuck. The true explanation which Tilo used for brief lean's distinction and charm. propelled Comet. his own life,

mate aim was to establish must have disappointed the journeys through the mountain. Tito brid Maclean were Communist state in Yugoslavia. more romantle spirits in the Maclean. Invited to travel in strange partners to be conduct Yet whien, Mucienn asked him Foreign Office.

Tito's "pecial coach," found

to

he

THE BOND

Ona night royally entertained on British approach, not in his writing lowerdeck

colourfut him from This is a fine,

Tr 1937 Italy

cocktail bar

and

tho

น.

destroyer carrying E

two That was In 1930.

to Vis, Tito's English venture story. It will form They have found In three bond between the

Communist men was their native pat- the

International became remarkably fluent and a Important source for all months"

pt operation, the wardroom historians of the WAT in the height of the season, that these riotism. They were both fight decided that a new secretary he entertained ing the same enemy, and both general of tho Communist with a fine rendering of Ed. Balkans..

biggest-yet airlinces are recognised that their countries Party was

needed in Yugo- ward Lear's The Owl" and the

If his modesty is a little too economical to operate. more slavia. The incumbent was Pussycal Went 10 Sea-a

at conspicuous

limes his This is particularly disturbing. the help of the quickly disposed of, and Broz rhyne which he had picked up humour a little menotonous in because B.O.A.C. has spent

years before while languishing

nis, £4,050,000 on ten Stratocruisers, understatements, in gaol.

and his tale a little long, then and it is reported that leading humour did let us reflect that few men American companies are send- Jittle train still in their thirties have dono ing experts to Britain to study had cap- 0 quarter as much or could the possibility of placing orders

would win the wor quickly with

other.

Impressed

sioogte of

ปี

AMERICA IS AFTER BLUE RIBAND

New liner will compete for the Queen Mary record

+

that it consisted of an austere box-wagon graced with

its

Jaconic

-(London Express Service)

-{London Express Service)

small stove and with benches C. V. R. Thompson Reports:

round the walls.

In this Conveyanc Tito, most of the Yugoslav Cabinet, Tito's bodyguard, Olga his secretary and Tiger the wolf- highly uncom- United States Line spokesman la hand made a

fortable journey which reached London.

R ellmax when "According to U.S. mensure-Minister dozed oft and fell on

whole Inelden ments, the liner will be 40,000 the dog. The

n distinct flavour Lons. That represents about had 65,000 tons according to British Burltanta visited by the Marx

Brolliere. methods of measurement"

The Queen Elizabeth is 03,700 tons, the Queen Mary 81,300 tong,

Troop-carrior

PRIDE

Cabli et

of

The American Scene

NEW YORK. TOME from a two months* (COLUMNIST Earl Wilson has tour of Britain and Europe, apologised for calling Bri- Henry Kingman, president of tish women underfed. fence the National Association of railish, and tooth-nickish." Mutual Savings Banks, blamed Sald be: "I was a end and the dollar crisis on this: "We 'bounder, and if you want Americans have been good me to I'll write I am sorry on salesmen, but bad buyers." the blackboard 500 times.

"Maybe the rest of us here, FAMOUS for their ways of TO'S pride was evident in and the English too, shaukt

resisting taxation, Boston other ways. When Belgrade zipper our mouths and muzzle traders have threatened to was liberated he at once in-jour muttering about each "bootleg" cigarettes from other Contract for the new ship has sisted on the finest shirts, the other, and be pals. Persons States, in deflanca of a jump in. been placed with the Newport beat horses and the most skill-y, I shall not write again inxes. What they object to: 20 News Shipbuilding Company, ed tailoring. And he installed about British food, for. I'll al- cigarettes will cost 11d, in-

remember those loyal stend of 11d. Virginia. Total cost will be armall bust of Napoleon on ways

this desk.

British gals forced me to cat more than £17,000,000.

claim very unpleasant While still in the mountains one

dish PROHIBITIONISTS Important factor in the cost Maclenn, on returning from a words."

that there are 800,0000 wo- been

men drunkards in America, and THE Americans plan to build a liner which is expected of the ship blon her visit to Italy, found that Tito

conversion to troop-was wearing a

Is Increasing possible to compete for the Atlantic Blue Riband.

new uniformTROTSKYITES have entered that the number carrying in an 'emergenty.

with n roughly embroidered a crindidate for this au- of the rate of 120,000 a year. The in reason, they say, is that drink- Present holder is the Queen able to maintain # cruising As a troop-carrier the verse! Laurel Jent encircling a star on tumn's mayoral elections

Maclean Mary, with a crossing in 1938 speed

York. His

is ing by women is depicted as at an average speed of 31.89 maximum speed must, therefore, will be able to transport 12,000 that Tito was "alightly em. Michael Bartell, and he said socially smart and glamorous

men. Normal passenger capacity barraged" when congratulated that most of his campaign EXTERI 01 will be 2,000, with a crew of on his promotion to Marshal. speeches will not discuss localRISTMAS wrapping paper this winter will small of ship still has to bo"ind. It is "Modern prefabrication 1,000,

"They would db 1," sai Tito, Issues but Marshal Tito's de-

Christmas trock already claimed that she will be methods will be used,” sald a

referring to the Anti-Faseksi flanco of Russia,

28% of

knots,

be considerably In

Keel plate of the American this,

NANCY.

knots, Her

-(London Express Service)

his sleeve.

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