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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These Britons want to learn to fly, for they want to beat Adolf Hitler, and they respect the air power he can call up. But Britons encounter two insurmountable difficulties in their learning: the sun shines over Great Britain only one hour in every three; the island is too small and crowded for extended training flights...
Last June Sir Cyril wrote a pregnant sentence which in all candor he would probably admit is the real reason for Great Britain's fighting Germany: "Our responsibility is the defense of a great Empire." Britain does not want to attack; she wants to defend. But if the issue is joined, she must attack or lose, because aerial warfare cannot be won on the defensive. That Sir Cyril and his associates fully realize this is indicated by the nature of the Force they have built...
...year Britain had about seven bombers for every three pursuit ships; and they are good bombers. The Vickers Wellington can go almost 300 m.p.h., and has ample range to strike at Berlin-3,240 miles. Smaller, just as fast, the Bristol Blenheim (range: 1,125 miles) is one of Great Britain's main standbys. And the mysterious Bristol Beaufort is too fast and too good to be described to the public...
...William Thomas Manning, small, dry, astute Episcopal Bishop of New York, has always been a leader in the church unity movement. Bishop Manning has his enemies, but those enemies have hardly ever caught him out on a point of theology or canon law. Last fortnight Dr. Manning threw the great weight of his shrewd experience against the "Proposed Concordat" drawn up last year as a means of eventually uniting the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches (TIME...
...letter to the "dear brethren" of the commission in charge of the Concordat, Bishop Manning urged that this instrument, which is bringing "apprehension and dismay to great numbers of our people and clergy," be dropped entirely. The Bishop urged four objections...