[WWI] Postwar Aircraft

Shane Weier bristolf2b at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 3 03:59:14 EDT 2006


Neil says

>Quote from Skyways 78 (in the book review section somewhere):

....an ot publication BTW

>"even the date of the end of the Great War varied from country to
>country:
>France officially declared the it over on October 23 1919 and the
>British offficially declared the it over on August 31 1931!"

This is of course the consequence of waiting for His Majesty's Public 
Service to complete the paperwork.

Leave it to Sir Humphrey and we'd still be waiting for the declaration of 
the start of the 21st Century - and the beer would be flat

Standars *are* slipping.

Shane

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