The Archive · 1936

The Way of the World

ATLANTIC AIR FERRY

On a shuttlecock service across the Atlantic Ocean the two German alr-ships, the Graf Zeppelin and her larger and" younger ister, the Hindenburg, continue to maintain a regular schedule anda sustained patronage judging by the capacity Joads of passengers, mail and freight being carried. The veteran Gratis now on the South Atlantic service and 1s back at her hangar at Friedrich-shaken after completing "her four teenth trip on that route. The Hindenburg is in the northern service between Frankfurt and New Jersey and has left on her tenth North Atlantic trip, The smoothness and regularity this airship line across traditionally the worst ocean passage on the face of the globe must be Interpreted as a happy augury for the future of Atlantic airlines which will shortly be expanded by heavier-than-alr craft to be operated by four different countries, French and German aiteratt have already covered the southern route and experimental fights have established the practical. nature of northern routes, while Aniglo-American rtrangemenis to exploit a region even farther north are quickly -aproaching realization through the construction of suitable craft," Allo-gether, the prospects of regular ocean Hight with airships and heavler-than-fair craft ce-operating are extremely favour ble and it will not be long before a new era of transportation has opened on a world which will not be satisfied until time has been reduced swept the Reds out of the country. But he was not an advocate of the return of. the monarchy, at least under the Hapsburgs. He took a leading part in opposing the return of Charles IV in 1920 and 1921, In the succeeding years he became the leader of, the Race-Defence Party In Hungary and did excellent work, but after 1928 he joined the Unionist Party in Hungary and became State Secretary of National Defence, Between 1928 and 1932 he was Hungarian Minister for Defence, and at the end of the latter year, rose to the rank of Prime Minister, in which post he held almost dictatorial powers. General Gomboes was certainly one of the outstanding figures In Europe since the war, and hhis demise will be a serious loss to his country,

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