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Today the tables have been turned. Adolf Hitler, by his tearing up of the military clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, his revelation that he has secretly built an air battle fleet the equal of Great Britain's, and his demand for a German navy 35% as strong as hers, has given official London the jitters. He has also given suave, poker-faced Joachim von Ribbentrop the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission-the special mission being to see what Britannia has to say about Germany's naval demands. Last week Ambassador von Ribbentrop, after...
...Versailles. If it be upheld. Britain remains automatically mistress of Europe's seas, while explaining to Germany that but for unreasonable France friendly Britain would raise no objection to Germany's naval demands. Snapped the French semi-official Journal des Débats: "If the German fleet were fixed at 35% of the British strength that would be equal to 85% of the French fleet. Germany would therefore have an incontestable superiority in the northern seas, as we would be obliged to keep part of our force in the Mediterranean and for colonial defense. Consequently we are faced...
Since reserve planes are usually in a 3-to-1 ratio to first-line planes, this meant a 1937 fleet of about 4,500. Cost: ?30,000,000 ($147,300,000). To man the planes the R. A. F. needs 2,500 more pilots, as well as 20,000 more mechanics, riggers, wireless operators...
...take with him the weak men in the National Cabinet. This meant two in particular: Sir John Simon whose Olympian coldness in human contacts had not served Britain well in foreign affairs; and the Marquess of Londonderry, Air Minister, who should have known that Germany was building an air fleet...
Violinist Fritz Kreisler opened his South American season with a recital. Belle Didjah, U.S. interpretative dancer, gave a performance of mechanistic eurythmics, and Ettore Panizza, fresh from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, conducted Gluck's Alceste. To entertain the swarms of Brazilian tourists that followed the fleet half a dozen road companies were giving dramatic performances in Portuguese...