arachute Prerogative
The German wireless was almost plaintive about the dropping f British parachutists in Italy. Parachuting, it was intimated, as a purely German speciality, and for Great Britain to start ouig it was represented as an obvious breach of international enities—which Germany is always so scrupulous to observe. ctually, of course, the parachute pioneers are neither the ritish nor the Germans, but the Russians. Quite apart from s military importance, parachute-jumping from towers be- me a favourite diversion in Moscow years ago. An article The Spectator in 1938 gave a vivid description of the arachute-training in the Soviet army, and mentioned that the rmy contained at least a quarter of a million parachutists. At e Paris Exhibition in 1937, where the German and the oviet pavilions glared at each other so impressively across the avenue, there was a corner of the entertainment section here the intrepid leaped ceaselessly from noon to night off a h platform into nothingness with a parachute to buoy uP. They were not all Germans.
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