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...night last week B. F. Goodrich Co. gave a party in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Its climax: Goodrich President John Lyon Collyer parted blue plush curtains to reveal a map of the world. On it a line of green neon lights traced the rubber route from Singapore, via Suez and the Mediterranean, to the U. S. and Goodrich's Akron plant. Traveling the rubber route with President Collyer's warning words was a small cardboard boat. In mid-Atlantic, a loud explosion blew...
...juggernaut's next immediate destination. High-flying waves of German bombers paraded over Paris, began a new reign of terror by showering heavy bombs at airfields, factories, railroads. Forty-five people were killed, 149 injured and thousands scared, including U. S. Ambassador Bullitt (see p. 30). Marseille and Lyon were raided by Germans looking for industrial objectives down the Rhone Valley...
...response, once more Canadian armament was given a slap in the rump. After a four-hour meeting with the War Committee, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King announced in Parliament that "sweeping measures" would be taken. A third and fourth division would be raised by enlistment; the first division, already abroad, would be reinforced: the second division sent abroad as soon as possible. To speed the lagging Empire Air-Training Plan, the Hon. Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, twice-wounded, once-decorated veteran of World War I, was appointed head of a new Ministry of National Defense for Air. Work...
Double Duty. The job of the R. A. F. in France was directed by Air Marshal-Arthur Sheridan Barratt, and his two Vice Marshals, Charles Hubert Blount (pronounced Blunt) and Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair...
...Canada the newly elected Dominion Parliament met for the first time. Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had behind him 182 seats in a House of 245. Opposition Leader Richard Burpee Hanson, elected in caucus last week by the beaten Canadian Conservatives, was eager to jump on the Empire defense band wagon of Winston Churchill. Only criticism hurled at Canada's Prime Minister last week in Ottawa was that the Dominion is not being prepared for war. That was the issue on which the election had been held...