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With the U. S. supplying these much-needed reconnaissance and training ships, new Secretary of State for Air Sir Kingsley Wood intends to keep Britain's factories rolling out bombers and fighting planes. Both U. S. contracts are a result of investigations by Britain's air mission, which returned to England fortnight ago after scouting production facilities of U. S. and Canadian concerns. No Canadian contracts were let last week but the Ministry admitted that a move to aid Canadian aircraft production, in line with the mother country's longview program to make the Dominions self-sufficient...
Britain's most ingenious solution for handling terrorism in Palestine was revealed in Geneva last week to the League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission by His Majesty's Government's Deputy Permanent Under-Secretary for Colonies, Sir John Shuckburgh. Following a suggestion of mail-fisted Sir Charles Tegart, now adviser to the Palestine Government on the suppression of terrorism, a barbed wire barrier to keep out terrorists is being strung along the entire Palestine frontier at a cost of $450,000. This includes a nine-foot barbed wire fence between Palestine and French-mandated Lebanon and Syria...
...British commission, under Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Government, came home from Berlin last week to report that the only payment the Reich will consider is one in goods. His Majesty's Government met further rebuff with a German reminder that Britain had refused to take over the debts of the Boers...
Splitting the vacated positions, the Prime Minister last week appointed as Secretary to the Cabinet Edward E. Bridges, civil servant and son of the late Poet Laureate Robert Bridges; as Clerk of the Privy Council Sir Rupert Howorth, former Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet; and as secretary to the powerful Committee of Imperial Defense, Colonel Hastings L. Ismay, heretofore Deputy Secretary...
...they spent most of their time trying to find some way to mend the painful gap between Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, bickering politely about the validity and application of physical theories, asking themselves what physical reality is after all. Bohr criticized de Broglie and almost everyone present criticized Sir Arthur Eddington. Altogether they gave the impression of giants wallowing in a quagmire...