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1919
1919 - 1658.PDF
DECEMBER 25, igi^^J f W HAT with Lord Rosebery's extremely straight and logical talks with Sir Howard Frank, representing the M.O.M., over the Tumhouse aerodrome Dora ramp ; Mrs. Strickland Constable's complaints upon the same lines in regard to her property, Hornsea Mere, used by the R.A.F. during the War; Mrs. Tilke Macadam's action for £150,000 in the Scottish Courts against the W.O. for taking possession of her property of Craigengillan (including a portion of Loch Doon) and constructing railways and other works thereon, which proceedings she avers " were unwarranted and illegal " ; Mr. J. Proctor's objection to the annexation, compulsorily, of his land at Manston Park, near Margate, besides^ several other claims upon the same basis throughout the country, the R.A.F. (as the passive medium) is figuring rather pro minently just now with unenviable notoriety in the public eye. BUT it's the bureaucratic Jacks-in-ofBce—Lord Rosebery dubs them by very different names—who should be blamed, not the R.A.F. The flying units, like the fiddler, have done their best, but all the same they are the ones to be shot at, so far as the nominal responsibility applies. It is to be hoped "that the action now being taken by some of these prominent champions of the people's rights may bring to light that a little justice in regard to meum and tuum, as between* " the Crown," as represented by bureaucracy, and citizens, still exists. In FLIGHT we have been for years up against this iniquitous ignoring of private rights at the expense and to the undoing of the individual, when the community qua comiruinity, should carry the burden of community obligations. Therefore, do we most heartily say " ditto^' to all the views of Lord Rosebery and the other victims of the Dora *' By Grace " ramp. &':'•:•&::• $&$& •mm m mm -v.::::;:,:; 8ltf mm 1 • !U:HS£* mi MOST ANNOYING : V.—After two years' active service with a fighting squadron in France, to be " wiped out '* In England by a mail-bag dropped from above by a careless Handley Page pilot • 1660
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