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Lesson of Air Race: “Flying Pastor Fore
runner of Flying Disaster.”
By BRIG. GEN. WILLIAM MITCHELL, Army Air Service
The recent transcontinental air derby plainly demonstrates that the
isolation of the United States with respect to Asia and Europe'is com
pletely broken down.
Ihe airline distance covered is 5,402 miles, unless than 50 hours of
actual flying time. It is as far as from Constantinople to New York;
from Berlin to Denver; from Tokyo to San Francisco, $nd twice the dis
tance from Europe to America.
From a military aspect there is no longer any doubt that a complete
control of the air by any nation mea,ns military control of the world.
From the standpoint of distances, Asia is only divided from America
by 21 miles of water across the Bering strait, wh^e the greatest distance
that has to be covered over water between the American continent and
ftur&pe is scarcely over 300 miles, if the route through Canada, Greenland,
Iceland, the islands north of Great Britain, to Great Britain, itself, is fol
lowed.
The rapidity with which the airdromes were established in this test
shows that they can be established with equal rapidity for long stretches
by any other nation. A rigid dirigible airship can carry ten tons of cargo,
besides its crew, fuel for a long trip, and armament for its defense—ten
tons of material will keep a thousand airplanes working for one day.
If an Asiatic or European country desires to attack America, a system
of airdromes could be established, successively, a defense organized against
land or sea elements, and the airplanes concentrated on them successfully,
while their supply could be insured by the great rigid dirigibles working
with their own countries.
This is not only possible, but almost a sure accompaniment of the
next war and will be resorted to by the nation gaining control of the air.
This manner of procedure will practically negative navies, so far as their
ability to deal the first blow is concerned.
All the great nations of the world are now applying themselves strenu
ously to the development of an air service. America, which has the best
natural advantages in the world, is probably the last of the great nations
at the present time in her actual development of air power—military or
commercial.
Return of the Bodies of American Dead
From the Cemeteries of France.
By REPRESENTATIVE CONNALLY, Oklahoma,Speech in Congress.
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I have today introduced a joint resolution and asked that it be re
ferred to the committee on foreign affairs, and I believe if it is passed
promptly by the two houses it will have a very great effect toward per
suading the French republic to lift the present restrictions which prevent
the disinterment and return of the bodies of American soldiers to the
United States.
Pending hostilities, the French government, at the request of the
American military authorities, postponed the consideration of any agree
ment until after all American forces should have left France. Recentlv
fhe state department and the war department have taken up with the
French government the question of arriving at some understanding upon
thIS subject. Up to date the French republic has declined to permit the
disinterment and removal of bodies to the United States prior to January
1, 1922.
The,practical difficulties which present themselves are, first, we musi
secure the consent of the French government, and so my joint resolution
provides in terms that the two houses of congress respectfully request that
the French republic repeal, modify, or suspend its laws, ministerial in
structions, arid regulations so as to permit the United States to bring back
io this country the bodies of such soldiers, sailors, and marines where
such removal may be requested by the nearest of kin. The second part of
the resolution is a direction to the secretary of war to proceed with the
disinterment, upon the consent of the French government being obtained,
and to bring back to the United States the bodies of those soldiers whose
nearest of kin desire and express the wish for that to be done. The war
department already has an extensive machinery established for this very
purpose.
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