Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year's saw an "upgrading" in Britain's Royal Air Force, inflation of its status without actual increase of its ranks. The R. A. F.'s commanding officer, Sir John Maitland Salmond, was upped from the rank of Air Chief Marshal to Marshal of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to a Field Marshal in the army. To fill Sir John's old rank, not one but two Air Chief Marshals were created. That required promotions all down the line. Vice marshals became marshals; air commodores were boosted to vice marshals; group captains to air commodores; wing...
Last week the R. A. F. upgrading reached the enlisted ranks. Prouder than any air marshal were the sergeant majors, highest ranking non-commissioned officers, heretofore "one step removed from a gentleman." Henceforth the sergeant major is a warrant officer, to be "addressed by airmen as 'sir' and to be referred to as 'mister...
...with the government leaders." Promptly a rash of rumors broke out that Tuan was carrying to Nanking secret proposals from the Japanese Government. In Peiping a spokesman for the Japanese Legation said: "Prospects are bright for direct negotiations." Confirming this, members of the retinue of Peiping's "Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-Liang (who is supposed to defend North China), said that "since nothing can be expected from the League of Nations, the Manchurian dispute is leading toward direct negotiations with Tokyo...
When Tuan reached Nanking he professed hostility to Japan (a necessary profession with Chinese public opinion at fury heat as it was last week), then went into a huddle with China's Generalissimo. Marshal Chiang Kaishek. A few hours later Peiping's "Young Marshal" flew down in his sumptuous private plane to Nanking, joined the huddle. If Tuan actually carried an offer from Japan- presumably an offer of peaceful settlement on a basis approximating the status quo-not a whisper of the terms leaked out. Meanwhile, however, the Japanese advance to occupy Jehol Province (TIME...
Peace has never had the proper kind of publicity. It hasn't lent itself to the copy-starved portables of reporters with the same excitement which war can marshal. It is essentially a tranquil, home-loving, field and stream, house and garden sort of condition. It has never had such valuable props in its kit as patriotism, heroism, bright ribbony medals, brass bands, and the devoted support of the ladies...