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1940
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JANUARY 18, 1940. COMMERCIAL AVIATION NEAT YORK MUNICIPAL AIRPORT as viewed by incoming passengers on American Airlines' Flagships. The three hangars in the foreground are those leased by American Airlines, Inc. FOGS, FUN and FICTION Mr. Churchill in a Row-boat : A Tip to Goebbels By "A. VIATOR."E jT week there was a day when air services to and from the Continent were interrupted. It is not for me to say why they did not fly, because the Censor is so touchy about references to the weather and especially to thick fogs. What I believe I may venture to relate is the little anecdote of the member of the ground staff here who ventured forth on to the tarmac at high noon and was unable to see his hand before his face. It was only by shaking hands violently with himself and crying in a loud voice "Is that you, old man," that he was able to assure himself that it was really his own hand which was before his face and not that of another bloke groping in the murk. : But I would not go so far as to say that it was bad weather which held up the services. Anyway, the point is that passengers in several neutral countries, as well as here in England, were asked if they would like to travel by boat, to which there was a universal cry of "No Siree, No Siree." All of them preferred to wait until the following day, the slogan being "It's Safer by Air." Not being a Big Brass Hat I am not jreally allowed to divulge vital secrets as a rule in the sort of pub where the very beer pulls have ears, but just for once I should like to give onr courteous and genial pals the Gestapo a tip. When our Mr. W. Churchill wears that little old yacht hat of his, as he recently did somewhere in France, the watchword should be Achtung, and a specially stealthy goose stepper should be put on his trail. Had he been watched he might have been observed leaving France in a row-boat, alone save for an ice manufacturing machine kindly supplied by Eed Hot Refrigeration, Ltd. With that low but consummate cunning Dr. Goebbels admires so much, our Mr. Churchill deliberately faced in the opposite direction to his course, thus obviously hoping to be regarded as coming rather than going. When well out to sea, Iceland way, he pressed button B of his infernal ice machine, which promptly manufactured a large and knobbly iceberg. This he cast adrift with a fiendish chuckle. Facts are facts, and the fact remains that at about that time and place a gallant Narsie (as our Mr. W Churchill
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