Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer was recently given in the British magazine, The Aeroplane, by its expert, temperish editor and founder, Charles Grey Grey. As editor of the standard handbook, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, Mr. Grey is also the world's No. 1 air authority. As a trained engineer fascinated by the science of war, he is emphatically anti-French and pro-German. He opened his opinion of France's air establishment with a wild blast against France's case against Germany at the London Locarno Conference...
...German Government in Realmleader Hitler's proposals, Editor Grey felt, had been "full of peace and good will towards men" and, despite the fact that it is "at least an equal of any nation represented and definitely the superior of all but one [Britain]," it had been put into "the position of the prisoner in the dock facing a hostile jury...
...Editor Grey was enraged at France's supposed intention of sending French Moroccan troops to police the Rhineland. Cried he, "A typical example of French feminine mentality! . . . Suppose that France had demanded that we should allow niggers and Moors in French uniforms to garrison Margate, Dover, Folkestone, Eastbourne, Seaford, Brighton and Worthing. . . . As a purely ethnological fact one might argue that the fair-haired, blue-eyed Berbers of Morocco, and the Riffs, who are in fact the last remnants of the Teutonic Vandal Kingdom of Northern Africa, are better white men than the little dark scum of Southern France...
Getting down to facts, Editor Grey wrote: "The new generation, so to speak, of French bombers is a complete washout. . . . The French single-seat fighters are a washout also. . . . Year after year at the French Aero Show we have been shown the same high-speed French single-seat fighters. We have been told quietly that they were only there for show and that the real things were at Villacoublay or Buc, just being tried out and just about to do wonderful things. But these wonderful machines have never appeared. . . . Our information, which is quite reliable, is that...
...Editor Grey's own Jane's All the World's Aircraft for 1935 says: "One of the greatest difficulties with which we have had to contend ... is the steady growth of a policy of secrecy on the part of the Navy, Army and Air Service Authorities of all nations." He lists the present French air force effectives available for European service at 1,127; the British...