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...abandonment of plans for a polar flight by the Shenandoah has considerably dampened immediate popular interest in aviation. On the other hand the significance of the whole problem of aircraft development becomes increasingly important in view of the threatened competition in air armaments between France and Great Britain. With the future progress of aircraft, it seems, will be linked the most significant of military and commercial relations. Certainly no man in the United States is better fitted to judge of the nature of that development than Major-General Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service, who lectures at the Union...
Representative John Jacob Rogers canvassed Congressmen. He despaired of support. The Polar adventure seemed doomed...
...this aerial activity has disheartened Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the apostle of the "friendly Arctic." Polar exploration is not what it used to be, he laments, and he is going to quit. Modern inventions, safety and comfort have lessened the joy of the venturesome explorer and it is now a humdrum sort of job. Stefansson believes the Shenandoah will attain her goal without mishap...
While the polar trip of the American Shenandoah is being decided upon, the loss of the French Dixmude serves to emphasize the dangers of the project...
...returning prisoners of war to their native countries. His work was largely in Russia, Germany, and Czecho-Slavakia. Since the war he has been doing relief work in connection with the League of Nations. He has won for himself as great honors for relief work as for his polar expedition. It was for the relief work that he was awarded the Nobel prize...