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...miles. Practice or not, however, the British did not mind the conclusion that the planes would be a demonstration of Anglo-French military solidarity. Said the London Times: "There is no reason why the sight of the R. A. F. should be confined to this country. The dispatch, for instance, of a numerous and representative British Air Force to France in the immediate future, either for a courtesy visit or for actual participation in any displays or maneuvers which French authorities may be organizing, would not be superfluous. . . ." The was little doubt that the French would be glad to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: We Have Guaranteed | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Western archeologists hunted for them but have never known for sure where the Khan's bones rest. One story is that he was buried under a great tree and that picked warriors stood guard until a forest grew to hide the spot. Nevertheless, last week an Associated Press dispatch told with unhistorical assurance of a silver coffin from a shrine in Etshinhuro, Mongolia, which was carried with pomp and fire crackers through the Great Wall on its way to a hiding place in Western China far from Japanese raiders. Inside, insisted the A. P., was the dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Khan's Dust? | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...cared more for big game hunting than for journalism, took over the World, in its last years delegated its management to other executives, finally sold it in 1931 to the Scripps-Howard chain. Still flourishing under Brother Joseph Jr. is Pulitzer paper No. 2, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Louis Lindbergh found himself facing a news cameraman he knew and liked-Edward J. Burkhardt of the Post-Dispatch, who is a captain in Lindbergh's old National Guard. The result: the old, smiling, agreeable Lindbergh (see cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Press v. Lindbergh | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Lady Lindsay has dealt as coldly and impersonally with Washington reporters as she would with the Embassy ice man.-Washington Dispatch to the New York Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: His Majesty's Press Agent | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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