Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canada is to be Britain's air-training ground. Turning out 12,000 pilots every 28 weeks is to be Canada's big contribution to the war, and this, in the opinion of Anthony Eden, "might well be the decisive factor." The so-called Empire Air Training Plan went into gear last week with the arrival in Ottawa of commissions from Australia and New Zealand. Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons. Heading the Australian delegation...
...train 12,000 pilots, Canada will need 1,500 ships over & above Britain's war needs. Her infant air industry, though encouraged by a $10,000,000 "educational" order from the mother country last year, is by no means equipped to supply such a quantity. Last week the Empire Training Planners waited only the embargo-lifting vote by Congress to place $100,000,000 worth of orders in the U. S., for 600 light trainers, 900 fighters and bombers. Of this cost, Britain will pay half, Canada onequarter, Australia and New Zealand one-eighth each...
...open western Canada. Trainers will be shipped to Canada from the other three countries, and in addition to pilots, some 100,000 mechanics, riggers, engine fitters, etc., etc., will be taught in expanded schools of Canada's youth training organization. Enlistments for all these services were reported last week to be far in excess of requirements, many more than can be handled...
Even better are the Curtiss fighters bought and proved by France, for many more of which both Britain and France were ready to bid last week (see p. 16). A story in London's Sunday Pictorial last month was certainly calculated to put into the R. A. F. any heart it may not have derived from its proved ability to handle the Germans to date. This story told of "mass executions of some of Germany's best pilots" following their refusal to fly for fear their planes had been sabotaged or because there were not enough Messerschmitts fighters...
...perfidious"; Churchill a "warmonger"), the British have developed a streamlined method which generally appears merely to put the clear eye of psychology on their foes. The British have so far branded Mr. Hitler nothing much worse than an interesting nut, the Germans as the victims of mass delusion. Last week the German and British methods met head on, to the former's disadvantage...