A SHOCK FOR VISITORS
HENDON AIR PAGEANT. , “Did you go to the air pageant at Hendon?” asks Lord Castlerosse in the “Daily Express.” “If so, you would have seen some puzzled men about. They were chattering in foreign languages. Sometimes in German. Yes, usually in German, but you heard Russian, Dutch and French, too. They were surprised, these men, and some seemed even shocked. These pilots had the impression they were looking at a phoenix. There were men, too, who remembered somewhat uneasily that they had been told in 1914, on the highest diplomatic authority, that England could be disregarded because she was not only decadent but also was on the verge of civil war. In 1936 thq story had gone around that we had no air force, and these flying foreigners had avidly swallowed this statement and hugged themselves in the belief that we were lying fat,, rich, and helpless. They saw a very different state of affairs.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3813, 25 September 1936, Page 4
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159A SHOCK FOR VISITORS Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3813, 25 September 1936, Page 4
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