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Joseph P Joe Kennedy Sr — Part 7
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THE FOREIGN ORSERVEA ry New York, June 1, a }s is the news behind
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SIGN OF HOPE
Best indication this week of peace for Europe, for a while at any rate, was the
announcement from The Hague revoking the State of Alarm orders, a prelude to generel
mobilization. The Dutch, however, who certainly would be among the first to suffer
4f Hitler attacked in the West, still mintained a rigid guard over their frontier
‘bridges and roads, and the dynamite charges to blow up the dikes were left intact.
Further food for thought was tossed at Hitler by the aviation editor of the
Sunday Times of London with the announcement that Britain's Royal Air Force is now
six months ahead of schedule, with 1,000 planes being turned out each month, This
for a war, and if as many as 30 planes are shot down 4 day, Britain can still keep
ehead of any foe in the air. It also was announced that a new fast plane, the Marine
Spitfire, has been developed which can travel on an average of 365 m.p,h., far exceed-
ing anything in the German or Italian air corps, These planes are equipped with
eight machine guns. A second fighting plane known as the Hawker Hurricane ths been
developed which can average 330 m.p.h,
At the same time, Maior General Sir Frederick Maurice, addressing 1,000 dele-
gates of the British Legior, bluntiy warned Germany not to repeat the aistakes made
by Kaiser Wilhelm and his war-lords in 1914, “Let there be no mistake, if our liber-
ties are threatened, we will fight for them,” he said,
SCECH “REVOLT” Hawcw
More ominous, however, was a movement reported from Warsaw where a large group
of exiled Czechs were forming a Czech Legion under General Lev Prchala, former
Wircister of the Interior of the Carpatho-Ukraine, as 4 direct threat to Hitler. Clein-
ing that Germany had broken all promises te Moravia and Bohemia, General Prchals
warned that the Czechs were almost at the point of an open rebellion. What made thi qs
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