Word: rearmaments
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...long-awaited Opposition demand for a public washing of Great Britain's air rearmament problems was beaten off last week as Prime Minister Chamberlain swung his Conservative M.P.s into line and downed a Labor motion for an inquiry, 329 votes to 144. Since many Conservatives had previously howled as loudly as the Opposition in attacking the Air Ministry while it was under the ousted Viscount Swinton, Mr. Chamberlain last week had to threaten Conservative members with ostracism at election time in order to insure himself of a comfortable margin...
...pronouncement came two moves in rapid succession. A five-billion franc defense loan, arranged by Finance Minister Paul Marchandeau, was oversubscribed a few hours after the lists opened to the public. An Air Ministry announcement revealed that France will begin her two-year plan of air force rearmament with the purchase of 100 fast Curtiss pursuit planes, ordered in the U. S. last week. And the general staff last week ordered the recruiting of an additional 60,000 native troops in Tunisia, thus bringing France's North African army to a total of 180,000: 1 20,000 natives...
...Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood, struggling to piece together an air rearmament program which will satisfy Government critics when the subject comes up in Commons this week, the loss of Adviser Lord Weir was more than compensated for. Lord Nuffield, Britain's top-rank motor manufacturer, announced that he was ending his two-year quarrel with the Air Ministry. Lord Nuffield, long at loggerheads with Lord Swinton, will place his mammoth Morris auto plant, the largest in Europe, at the Government's disposal for the mass production of airframes. The motor magnate had previously turned out only tanks...
Highways. Admiral Horthy, realizing that in Hungary the motorist must horn his way through every village at the speed of its cows and chickens, has slated a concrete speedway program modeled on Adolf Hitler's, tied it to Hungarian Rearmament, since a modern army does not march on its stomach but rides on its tires...
...Rearmament will eat up a great part of the billion pengös, but Admiral Horthy, too old and shrewd a campaigner to let the world know how much, preferred to emphasize Reconstruction...