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Last week in Washington, 1,500 businessmen descended on the Capitol in a fleet of taxicabs to tell Congressmen that they must vote for a two-year extension of NRA. In Manhattan William Green of the A. F. of L. roared to 18,000 clothing workers a threat of a general strike if Congress did not vote a two-year extension of NRA. At the White House Franklin Roosevelt came out strongly for two more years for NRA. The Ways & Means Committee of the House obediently prepared to report a bill for NRA extension. And the Supreme Court knocked...
Sentimental Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, last week gave the House of Commons Britain's revised air program, two months after Adolf Hitler had told Sir John Simon that Germany's new air fleet will match France's 1,700 planes. Slow in coming, the British reply was impressive. Last week, while Baldwin explained the bellicose program in principle to the Commons, Air Minister Lord Londonderry gave the House of Lords the details...
...March 1937, the strength of the Royal Air Force based at home, irrespective of the fleet air arm, will be about 1,500 first-line machines. This compares with the actual figure of first-line machines of 580 today and with a total of 840 which we should have reached by March 1937, under the expansion program announced last July. In short, we are nearly trebling the present strength of the Royal Air Force for the defense of the British Isles...
...stunting of Pilot Blagin was the result of a criminal lack of discipline which the Government and the Communist Party are removing from the air fleet with hot irons. . . . Regulations that hooligans of the air must not fly within a mile of military airplanes in flight should be applied to civilian aviation as well...
...Tokyo Japan's divine Emperor graciously received goodwill-touring Admiral Frank B. Upham of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, 50,000 of whose seamates on 160 vessels were maneuvering four days' sailing away. The Emperor professed himself "delighted to receive the representative of a friendly nation...