Stanley Baldwin Quotes
Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.
Baldwin, Stanley. "Air Defence." United Kingdom, House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates, 5th ser., vol. 292, 30 July 1934, col. 2339.
New York Governor Hugh Carey made extensive use of state airplanes and was discovered to have 31 pilots on the state payroll:
The Egyptians had received the latest Russian planes and weapons and outnumbered the Israeli Air Force 3 to 1. Within a year, the entire Egyptian Air Force was virtually destroyed. See {606125} for his equally unrealistic assessment of Egyptian air defenses.
This appears to be the first public call for Anti-Ballistic Missile Weapons & Systems. To many it is surprising that in 1946, there would be concern about missile defense, however during WWII, the Germans, violating the laws of war, struck London and other English cities with V2 rocket—the first ballistic missiles. England had suffered many civilian casualties and missile defense was a high priority for them.
There were few military thinkers at that time who would agree with Goebbels on this point.
The Seals who conducted the raid captured all the computers and documents that there were in bin Laden’s compound.
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC, PC (Can), JP, FRS was a British Conservative statesman who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as Prime Minister on three occasions.
