Word: british
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Munich the British Air Ministry cast its eye about for a source of Empire-built aircraft out of the reach of Hitler's bombers. The Ministry's eye fixed on Canada. The week before Chamberlain and Daladier signed away the life of Czecho-Slovakia, the Dominion got a new company: Canadian Associated Aircraft, Ltd. It was formed with Government blessing to coordinate aircraft orders from Britain. All its stock is held by six Canadian aircraft makers. The six: Canadian Car & Foundry Co., Fairchild Aircraft, National Steel Car Corp., Canadian Vickers, Fleet Aircraft, Ottawa Car & Aircraft...
...business ahead, began constructing two assembly plants, in Toronto and Montreal. Last week, while fuselages, wings and landing gears were coming off the old assembly lines (to be set up later in the Toronto and Montreal plants), it was announced at Ottawa that negotiations were about complete for new British war orders to Canadian Associated. The first order was whispered to be for $20,000,000 worth of bombers, and plenty more later...
Even if Canada gets only the drippings from the British order spigot, the Canadian aircraft industry has growth ahead. If the war lasts long enough and orders are big enough, Canada by war's end will not in future have to buy her planes from U. S. makers...
...British papers, still sold in France, are avidly read for news suppressed by French censors. The London Times and Daily Telegraph run to 16 pages, censored before they are set up in type, without those mysterious omissions that irritate readers of the French press. A typical French daily has only four pages and contains virtually no news except Army communiques. To fill out the sparse fare supplied by the Ministry of Information, editors translate dispatches from British papers...
French editors are especially chagrined because they cannot publish photographs taken under the eyes of French military authorities at the front. The same pictures appear in British journals which are read in France; but they cannot be transmitted to any neutral country. Telegrams and cables, no matter where they originate, are censored. A suspicious wire from Amsterdam to the Paris office of the New York Times had its first three lines deleted. They read: "Grover Whalen arrived at The Hague from Brussels and says he is satisfied with the results of his talks in Switzerland, France and Rome...