BEER TOO WEAK
RUSSIAN FLYERS’ COMPLAINT
WHISKY HAD NO KICK IN IT Soviet airmen who flew their Foreign Minister, M. M'olotov, to Britain thought British beer too weak. They said the whisky had no kick in it. R.A.F. men offered, to get vodka for them, but the Red fliers said they would stick to British drinks. The Russians drank copious quantities of soft drinks. One R.A.F. officer said: “Their whole behaviour ‘smelt’ of efficiency. They even tested the best fuSl we had, before putting it into their machine. Four of them kept guard outside their mess. The man who presided at dinner—sometimes' an n.c.o. or private—gave the signal for changes of guard.”
The Soviet airmen were made members of the “Short Snorters” —a club for trans-Atlantic fliers. The club badge is an American dollar bill.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3156, 12 August 1942, Page 3
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