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...Dauglish, to have to decide whether Communion may be administered to His Royal Highness, the new Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas, or must be withheld as it normally would be from the husband of a divorcee. In London the Daily Express of Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaverbrook, who was strongly pro-Edward VIII at the time of abdication, tried to get an Anglican cleric to clarify the tricky Church problem...
...Great Britain's Lord Beaverbrook and U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau were, Mr. Knudsen indicated, talking through their hats last week when they proclaimed that Great Britain can begin getting 3,000 U. S. planes per month by early 1941. By financing 38 additional factories in the U. S., the British may be able to get 3,000 per month by mid-1942. (Last week the British reported that they had ordered 11,000 U. S. planes, got delivery of 2,800 since late...
...displaying "great dash and gallantry" and bagging eight enemy planes, R. A. F. Squadron Leader the Hon. Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, 30, son & heir of Napoleonic little British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook, now Minister for Aircraft Production, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...quality of Britain's airmen & equipment is higher and their numbers (according to Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaverbrook last week) greater than ever before. But they are still woefully few compared to the Luftwaffe, which last week, by its comparative inaction, appeared to be gathering itself for its greatest lethal swoop of all. R. A. F. sought to hamper those preparations by seeking out German planes upon the ground-a technique at which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight...
...aircraft business (he stopped making Ford tri-motors in 1932) has been waited for. Last week he and his production chief, tough, profane Charles E. Sorensen, were stroking their chins over a variety of projects- high-powered Rolls-Royce engines, shot-welded Duralumin fuselages, even plastics. From London, Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Air, announced that Ford would make 6,000 Rolls-Royces for Britain; from Washington, Defense Advisory Commissioner William S. Knudsen announced that Ford would make...