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...neatest Communist maneuvers of the Chinese civil war was pulled off in November 1949 at Hong Kong's airfield, where 82 Nationalist transport planes had been flown in to presumed safety. Subverted by agents, most of their Chinese crews defected to the Reds. They grabbed eleven of the planes and took off for Mao's mainland. Hong Kong authorities announced that British recognition of the Communist government-then expected momentarily-would automatically give the Reds possession of the remaining 71 planes by right of inheritance. It was strange logic, explainable only by Hong Kong's greedy haste...
...corporation chartered in the U.S. by Major General Claire Chennault of wartime Flying Tiger fame, longtime air adviser to Chiang Kaishek. Then came two years of expensive court cases; each time, the Hong Kong courts upheld the Communist claim to the planes. Red guards were admitted to the British airfield where the planes were parked: they shooed away all visitors. Finally Chennault took his appeal to Britain's court of last resort, the Lords of Appeal of the high & mighty Privy Council in London. Bewigged Sir Hartley Shawcross, Q.C., Laborite attorney general and now a top-priced barrister, pleaded...
Last week the Communist coup of 1949 was dramatically undone. The Privy Council reversed the Hong Kong judgments. A few hours later, at 2 a.m., 500 heavily armed British police and troops descended upon the Hong Kong airfield. They seized the disputed planes, rounded up 150 sleepy Communist guards who sullenly chanted Red songs as they were hauled away in trucks. Two days later, 40 of the planes bearing the insignia CATC (for the former Central Air Transport Corp.) were turned over to C.A.T. The remaining 31, involved in similar litigation, will unquestionably be awarded to C.A.T...
...tool of the western powers" and of "Swiss warmongers," is therefore unfit to investigate Red germ-warfare charges in Korea. Three weeks ago he was all set to take his "evidence" to the East Berlin World Peace Council when the Swiss Federal Police moved in at the Zurich airfield, grabbed his briefcase, and forwarded the contents to a court of inquiry. A government communique announced that Bonnard's papers contained "slanderous allegations" designed "to discredit the reputation of the International Red Cross in the eyes of the world." This kind of discrediting, said the government, "constitutes a grave attack...
...sport once reserved for insects, a few preposterous fish, some webby mammals and the birds, some 60 glider experts from 19 countries last week silently swooped out over the dusty yellow airfield of Madrid's Real Aéreo Club. The two-week International Soaring contest, the biggest postwar meet, was coming to a flying finish. Each day at noon ranks of brightly colored sailplanes, eight abreast, were towed to a 1,650-ft. altitude by Spanish Air Force training planes. There, their long tow cables released, the motorless pilots sought out the thermals-rising warm air currents...