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Almost alone last week in believing that separation in itself would not cure the ills which the separatists wanted to cure was Congressman Melvin Maas of Minnesota, a onetime Marine flier (who still holds a colonel's reserve commission), now the ranking Republican member of the House Naval Affairs Committee. One of the ablest Congressional critics of naval and military affairs, he, too, believed that the air forces had been hampered by the general Army and Navy commands; that in some respects U.S. conceptions of air power and its use are outmoded by the lessons of World...
...judgment which many a disappointed naval flier shared. It was also a cruel judgment, which overlooked the realities that a Navy Chief of Aeronautics has to face. Among those realities, No. 1 is the fact that in the U.S. Navy the air service is still subordinate, existing on sufferance...
Hess took off from the Messerschmitt plant at Augsburg in a new type of reconnaissance plane on a Saturday evening. He wore a gold wrist watch, a gold wrist compass. In the pockets of his superbly tailored flier's uniform he had a photograph of his four-year-old son, two phials of medicine, one for his weak heart, the other for a gall-bladder ailment. He also had a selection of photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel...
...first account from London said that the Duke had met Hess at the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, that Hess had planned to approach him because before the war he was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship. The Duke's younger brother, also a flier, had worked in Nazi labor camps, married the strong-through-joy Hon. Prunella Stack, physical culturist and Nazi favorite...
...Giinther Tonn, officials of the Nazi Transocean News Service (TIME, March 24), arrested on deportation charges because they entered the U.S. as "treaty merchants" and did not maintain that status, were held at Ellis Island. The Government argument against bail reviewed the case of Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flier, who put up $15.000 bail and ran away...