Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exposed to Neville Chamberlain's belated distrust of the dictators, came out strongly against aggressors, and praised the strong reply of Premier Daladier to Benito Mussolini's declaration on Italy's colonial issues (TIME, April 3). M. Daladier had said quite flatly and unexcitedly over the air that: 1) France would willingly discuss Italy's demands as soon as Italy clarified them; but 2) France would not "cede a foot of our land nor one of our rights." Such words, said President Lebrun, were "calm, firm, loyal, courageous, and human." This week, for the first time...
...chapter was last week tagged on to the saga of Harold E. Dahl, the U. S. aviator who fell into Rebel hands while fighting as a mercenary for the Loyalist Air Force in July 1937. Ambassador Claude Bowers, back from Spain for good, said that the famous letter Harold Dahl's pretty wife, Edith, wrote to Francisco Franco, enclosing an interesting picture of herself and begging clemency for her husband, never reached the very married Generalissimo. His staff officers handed the picture around and "passed judgment." according to the New York Daily News, "on this and that." Then they...
...Portugal, Bolivia, Indo-China and Hungary, but the Tower which bears his name was always his favorite baby. In its top he made his home and laboratory for aerodynamic experiments until his retirement in 1921: his longevity (he died at the age of 91) he ascribed to the fine air he breathed in his lofty nest...
...ready for immediate service in case of a war on the Continent, there will be 32. The anti-aircraft Territorials will be upped to 100,000 men and 10,000 will be on coast defense duty. Together with 150,000 men in the Navy and 118,000 in the Air Force, not to mention the 60,000 British troops in India and Burma, Britain's trained fighting men will be well nigh 1,200,000-quite a respectable figure for a non-conscript country...
...complicated machines. According to this theory, the draft would largely be confined to industrial workers conscripted to produce the machines. Until only a month ago Britain's idea of help to France in case of war was that of furnishing a few highly mechanized divisions and her Air Force...