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...uniform and spiked helmet, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in his high hat. Defense Minister Wilhelm Groener in his high hat et omnes in their high hats were presently in position. A glorious sun beamed on Kiel. In the harbor a short distance away the entire German home fleet (27 ships) was drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius out of lightest, strongest materials...
Having assembled the greatest peacetime air force concentration in U. S. history at Dayton (TIME, May 25), early last week the Army prepared to move its 672-plane armada toward Chicago. The fleet was to attack a mythical foreign horde which threatened the south end of Lake Michigan. But before the armada could get its wheels off the Dayton airfields, a real enemy pounced upon...
When the weather cleared in the midwest, the Army armada gave Chicago its delayed spectacle: close formation flying, aerobatics, mass combat and attack operations. Then the show moved to its culmination in the East. With only two minor mishaps-one plane forced down, one damaged while landing-the fleet crossed the Appalachian highlands and settled upon five airfields near Manhattan...
...theoretical coalition of foreign powers had vanquished overnight the U. S. Battle and Scouting Fleets, destroyed the Panama Canal, was about to loose a fleet of planes on New York from aircraft carriers. The actual enemy was again bad weather...
When the assembled air fleet visits New England in a demonstration of mimic defense next Monday, it will be over the protests of a disorganized and heterogeneous minority. Some have objected on pacifistic grounds, others on grounds of health, namely the annoyance, if not danger, to patients ill in hospitals. And among other groups, there is one which voices its disapproval at the spending of so large a sum during a period of national depression...