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...omnipresent doodlebugs of the British road, marched out of the Air Ministry and stirred up the most public sort of scandal by announcing that the engineering plans of its gentlemen happen to be all wrong. Lord Nuffield made no secret of the fact that he had just given Lord Swinton, His Majesty's Secretary of State for Air, a pungent piece of his engineering mind: "I said to him, 'Well, God help you in case...
...last week Lord Nuffield blew the lid off. He declared that under "shadow aircraft engine industry" one factory is to make the crankshafts of British airplane engines, another is to make the cylinders, a third the ignition systems and so on. Vehemently Lord Nuffield pointed out to Lord Swinton that under any such scheme an enemy bomb which destroyed, for example, the crankshaft factory, could break the chain of British aircraft engine manufacture and bring it to a standstill. On the other hand, if complete engines were made by each of ten plants, the bombing of one would leave...
...their anxiety last week, Lord Swinton and his Air Ministry subordinates decided that they could be on the safe side only by placing orders in the U. S. for the manufacture of at least 700 fighting planes. This decision came just after U. S. aircraft salesmen had left London, disgruntled by the cool assurances of civil servants that Britain was making and would make all fighting aircraft she needed. Under Congress' so-called Espionage Act of June 15, 1917 it may still be a crime punishable by 20 years' imprisonment to export equipment such as fighting planes...
...Commons: ¶ Cheered whirlwind efforts to secure British control of the sea and air by Air Minister Viscount Swinton and First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare, who is popularizing his new slogan "BRITAIN MEANS BUSINESS...
...that this appointment was a "Baldwin bumble" and that Sir Thomas may be expected to "out-bumble Baldwin." Particularly scathing was Winston Churchill, whose friends had ardently angled to get him the appointment. Silently disappointed were such publicly groomed aspirants as Sir Samuel Hoare and the Air Minister, Viscount Swinton...