Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although experts dispute its exact size the German air force is still the biggest and best in Europe. Major George Fielding Eliot in his new book, Bombs Bursting in Air* estimates it at 4,000 first line planes, 4,000 in a first-line reserve, 2,500 in a second-line reserve, and a war-time replacement manufacturing capacity of 1,000 a month...
Free Lances v. Professionals. All these estimates of the quality of Europe's military machines are subject to debate. In the debate there are in general two sides. Free-lance authorities such as bulky, unruffled Major Eliot, earnest, deep-eyed Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times...
Assuming that Germany, Italy, Hungary and Spain fight under the banner of the Axis, and that Britain, France, Poland, Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Egypt fight as allies in a "stop-Hitler coalition," Major Eliot last month offered his tabulation of relative strengths in the New Republic...
...divisions for the Axis. It gives a rough idea of relative strength but is not definitive. Yugoslavia with 30 divisions. Bulgaria with some four divisions might join the Axis. Some professional soldiers believe that Germany has at least 30 more divisions-nearly half a million men-besides those Major Eliot names. So instead of 209 divisions the Axis strength would come to 273 divisions-not counting Japanese...
...however, the Axis has the edge. The following is Major Eliot's table showing the strength in military planes of the same two sides: First-Line Reserves Replacements...