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Aviation History
1936
1936 - 0169.PDF
AIRCRAFT ENGINEER AND AIRSHIPS FIRST AERONAVTICATWEEKLY IN THE^ORLD .• FOUNDED 1909 Editor C. M. POULSEN Managing Editor G. GEOFFREY SMITH Chief Photographer JOHN YOXALL Editorial, Advertising and Publishing Offices: DORSET HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET, LONDON, S.E.1 Telegrams : Truditur. Sedis: London. Telephone : Waterloo 3333 (50 lines). HERTFORD ST., COVENTRY. Telegrams: Autocar, Coventry. Telephone: Coventry 5210. GUILDHALL BUILDINGS, NAVIGATION ST., BIRMINGHAM, 2. Telegrams: Autopress, Birmingham. Telephone: Midland 2971. 260, DEANSGATE, MANCHESTER, 3. Telegrams: Iliffe, Manchester. Telephone: Blackrriars 4412. 2tiB, RENFIELD ST., GLASGOW, C.2. Telegrams: Iliffe. Glasgow. Telephone: Central 4857. SUBSCRIPTION KATES : Home and Canada; Year. £1 13 0. Ofhei Countries: Year, £1 IS 0., f> months, 16s. 6d. G months, 17s. tid. .*: months, 8B. 6d. :i months, Sg. 9d. No. 1413. Vol. XXIX. JANUARY 23, 1936 Thursdays, Price 6d. King Cj eorge v. HIS late Majesty King George V won the love of all his subjects and the respect of the whole world. No monarch of recent times has been better beloved or more deeply mourned. Above all things, he was a good man, with the very highest sense of duty and service. He spent his whole life in the service of his many peoples, and to all of them he was a pattern and example of what a British gentleman ought to be. He had no easy life. Had he been free to choose for himself, he would probably have pre ferred to spend his life as he began it, as an officer m the Royal Navy. But with the death of his elder brother, the Duke of Clarence, the call came to him to sacrifice his own tastes to public duty, and he never flinched from the sacrifice. In his reign there broke out the great est war the world has ever seen, in which it jell to the British Empire to play a leading part. through those four and woman strength to endure. terrible years the calm, brave, self-sacrificing example of the King cheered the Empire through its trials and sorrows, and helped to give every man To be King and Emperor during the war was a terrible ordeal for a man who loved peace and happy home life, and the way in which King George rose to his respon sibilities during that crisis could not conceivably have been better done. The reign of George V saw the birth of the Royal Air Force and of com mercial air transport, two things which already promise to change the character of war and the organisation of peaceful life. Had there been no great war, the conquest of the air alone would have made King George's reign memorable in history. To no section of the world can air transport make a greater difference than to the widely spread British Empire. Before he came to the throne King George travelled widely throughout his future dominions, and after his
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