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1922 - 0648.PDF
4ZR&M &HE> FGUfil te///)f/e)3. How some people are misunderstood in their public utterances; or is it that present-day tabloid reporting at times summarises twenty lines into three or so, with the quite conceivable results of mutilation of a statement as originally uttered ? In this respect Lord Robert Cecil appears to have been a very much maligned victim. Speaking the other day at a League of Nations demonstration, he said he was supposed to have advocated the possession by the League of a great fleet of aeroplanes, which should go and bomb the cities of any State supposed to be a wrong-doer until its cities were rendered uninhabitable. A more wild travesty, Lord Robert explained, of any observation he had made could not be imagined. He did say that in the next IT is to be hoped the expose of Mr. Claude Grahame-White of the slackness of Post Office officials to the actualities of air-post services may bring about its due reward. It is little use the P.M.G. putting forth his strength in encouraging the air mail if the horde of minor officials are too bored to absorb particulars of the regulations. Nailing down the actual post offices at fault, as Mr. Grahame-White does, is a welcome departure which can only lead to future alertness. SIR JOHN NORTON-GRIFFITHS, Unionist M.P. for Central Wandsworth, has always been a keen believer in aviation. Therefore, his characteristic cablegram from South America, THE HANDLEY PAGE " HANLEY " TORPEDO 'PLANE : The front view gives a very good idea of the divided undercarriage which gives accommodation for the torpedo. The machine is fitted with slotted planes, and has slotted ailerons, which are found to be effective right up to the stalling angle. war, so far as he could see, there was nothing to prevent the bombing of cities so that they would be uninhabitable, but that, on the contrary, the advances of science had made such an operation not only practicable, but almost easy, that the greatest bomb dropped in London was a hundred times smaller than the bombs already invented, and that the threat to civilisation of an air attack in the future was something which anyone who realised it might well tremble at and fear lest it should be repeated. He did say that, but he never suggested that the League, of all institutions in the world, should take the lead in such a barbarous thing as that. THOSE who know Lord Robert could hardly have accepted as his words the mis-statement when originally made. But it is just as well to record the actual sense of his words. " Keep the home fires burning. Propose to fly home over land from Lisbon and save two days," immediately upon his hearing of the general election, was just what might have been expected from him. Here's to his success, with the meanwhile active campaigning on his behalf of Lady Norton- Griffiths. WITH the re-opening of the London-Brussels-Cologne air-mail announced by the G.P.O., we would once again ask, When, oh, when are those air-mail stamps going to arrive ? It is just a little fillip of this nature that often inspires participation in supporting directly the early private enterprise which has been the means of building up the great British Empire. Aerial stamps are a silent but very practical form of advocacy. THE HANDLEY^PAGE " HANLEY " : Three-quarter rear view. 648
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