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From a plane at Croydon stepped blond, monocled General Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi Commissioner for Disarmament Questions, to talk with Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. General von Ribbentrop served as a lieutenant of Hussars during the War, speaks English and French perfectly, has spent four years in the U. S. and Canada and is married to the daughter of the German Champagne Maker Henkell. General von Ribbentrop had a three-power air limitation scheme to lay before the British Government. Nothing came...
With a shrug of resignation the dispatcher at Le Bourget airdrome switched off the floodlights which had blazed through the night. From Tempelhof weary newsmen dragged themselves off to bed. At Croydon the telephone operator made a last effort to raise remote stations, silent because of Whitsunday. At Floyd Bennett Field, New York, pessimism deepened to despair. It was 40 hours since Jimmie Mattern had rocketed off the mile-long concrete runway, and there was no word of his landing. His fuel must have run out at least ten hours...
Last April Chicago's carillon was tested at Croydon, England, before the Bishops of Croydon, Guildford and Norwich and 2,700 English & Irish bell ringers. Chicagoans inside & outside the chapel last week heard Carilloneur Lefévere, imported from Manhattan's Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, play "Now Thank We All Our God," a spot of counterpoint by Handel, "Annie Laurie," a Welsh folksong arid an ancient hymn from the Low Countries, home of the carillon...
What English constables call their "truncheons" became clubs with a vengeance last week as jobless men were beaten back and down in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Croydon, Westham and North Shields by what Victorian novelists used to call "the arm of the law in blue...
Observers, scanning similar (though less grave) riot reports from Birmingham, Birkenhead. Croydon and other centres concluded that as winter comes the British jobless are getting mass-ugly, losing what trust they had in the MacDonald National Government, turning again to the British Labor Party which last week held its annual congress (see below...