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...German air power, London experts thought General Marshall exaggerated the danger. Aeroplane's Peter Masefield doubted whether the Nazis could muster more than 19,000 planes for operations at one time. He further pointed out that the Nazi air strength is widely dispersed: Air Fleet One in eastern Germany, Air Fleet Two under Marshal Albert Kesselring operating in northern France and the Lowlands, Air Fleet Three under Marshal Hugo Sperrle, operating in western France from bases between Brest and the Spanish frontier, Air Fleet Five, under General Hans Jurgen Stumpff, operating in bases from The Netherlands...
...Writer Masefield thought that as of last week the Nazis could spring no more than 6,800 planes from the fleets now facing Britain. But the Germans would doubtless concentrate other air fleets before launching invasion; the Masefield figures suggested only that invasion is not im mediately imminent, may be preceded by a campaign in the South, probably will not come before March at the earliest...
Britain's press lords Beaverbrook (Daily Express), Camrose (Daily Telegraph), Astor (London Times), Southwood (Daily Herald), as well as Poet John Masefield and Information Minister Duff Cooper, ex-Prime Minister Baldwin, last week sent birthday congratulations to Britain's oldest newspaper, Berrow's Worcester Journal, founded in 1690 when William and Mary reigned in Merry England...
...first six months of World War II produced little poetry, but by last week Great Britain and her Dominions had begun to relieve the shortage. Available were several categories, beginning with mastiff-eyed Poet Laureate John Masefield's ode To the Australians Coming to Help...
Lionel S. Marks Gordon Mckay professor of Mechanical Engineering, who will retire September 1, is not only a noted scientist, but has become a mountain climber, a great traveller, and an intimate of such figures as John Masefield, Thomas Hardy, and Julian Huxley...