Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smart, aggressive General Arnold foresees that with the Air Corps about to be trebled in size and importance, the Army, to get full value from its airmen in the next war, may in effect have to rebuild itself around its air service. Deliberate, thoughtful General Craig gravely doubts that the U. S. Army needs an Air Corps of Roosevelt dimensions. Furthermore, he believes that whatever its size the Air Corps should continue to be a subordinate arm, supplementing the all-important Infantry...
...change deprived him of control of the General Headquarters Air Force. When that unit was established in 1935 as the Army's combat air force, it was placed outside the Air Corps proper. For a further check rein, its first commanding officer (Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews) was made directly responsible to the Chief of Staff. The GHQ Air Force now takes its place in the Air Corps and its new C. O. (Major General Delos CArleton Emmons) will be responsible to Henry Arnold alone...
...another change "in response to the recommendations of high Air Corps officials," Henry Arnold also took charge of all Air Corps personnel and training (a responsibility previously divided between him and the Chief of Staff) thereby taking direct control of training the new Air Corps which is to increase from 1,638 to 3,203 Regular officers (plus 3,000 Reservists), 21,500 to 45,000 enlisted men within ten years...
...Cliveden, country estate of Lord & Lady Astor. Among the reported Cliveden coups were the political downfall of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, the trip of Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to Berlin, the sending of Lord Runciman to Czechoslovakia, engaging Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh to "spy" on Soviet and German air power, the Munich Pact...
...last week what the well-dressed British baby will wear in the next war. Sir John said the Government has ordered 1,400,000 little gas helmets which will fit over the babies' heads and shoulders and will be strapped on over their chests. Attached will be small air pumps through which mothers-in gas masks-can supply their young with filtered air. To get the babies accustomed to the new "toys," British ARP (Air Raid Precaution) officials suggest that mothers begin right now to "play peekaboo" with their infants through the helmets' mica windows...