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While deeply impressed by the renowned name of Hispano-Suiza, I take leave, nevertheless, to raise an eyebrow at TIME'S Jan. 11 resume of Spain's current dilemma. Granted tongue-in-cheek journalism applied to stories such as Mussolini's Jew-baiting in the same issue is more effective than open condemnation. However, applied in the wrong place, as TIME did very obviously in its yarn on the use of "moteur canon" (i.e., hollow propeller shafts hurling machine gun bullets or small calibre shells) in aerial warfare, it is little more than an exhibition of Munchausen...
...then, again, in view of Hispano-Suiza and the fashionable aviator who flies this, "the swankiest instrument of death"; not to mention the source of this amazing news-item-usually well-posted TIME, it seems almost a sacrilege to suggest that TIME had its leg pulled by an overenthusiastic newshawk, or fell victim to the ways...
Most envied airman fighting with the Reds in Spain was Texan Major Frederic A. Lord. He had been given last week a ship with the very latest Hispano-Suiza "moteur canon," swankest instrument of Death. This engine has a hollow propeller shaft and through it fires an oversize machine gun or undersized field piece discharging explosive, tracer, incendiary or armor-piercing shells...
...What other cars might claim to be in the same category as the Phantom III? Only five that I can recall offhand: the latest Hispano-Suiza, Horch, Mercédès-Benz, Packard, and the huge 'golden' type Bugatti...
Specifically the great aircraft engine makers, Hispano-Suiza, sent famed Sacha Guitry's good friend, Mlle Claude May, to win a Grand Prix d'Honneur in starched organdie with peplum jacket and one of their dazzling cars. More conservative, the Delage Company sent Mme Paul Cartier, daughter of a onetime Imperial Russian oil tycoon and wife of a small Geneva banker, to be "crowned" La Laur...