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MORRISON VISITff"SHEt,TEtt Mr. Herbert Morrison, Britain's new minister of home security, pays a visit to a "tube" air raid shelter in south east London, on his first round of duty. He is shown talking to air raid sheltering mothers and kiddles In the shelter this may not be home, but it is security. Canada's War Chiefs . AIR VICE-MARSHAL L. I). D. McKEAN Chief Air Liaison Officer United Kingdom Air Liaison Mission By KEN CLARK, Canadian Press Staff Writer,, Air Vice-Marshal L. D. D. McKean is the link between the British Air Ministry and the vast British Commonwealth Air Training plan stretching across Canada. As he sits in his lartre briiiht office in the corner of the Jack son building in Ottawa, he has a telephone to London J ready to his hand. 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There was nothing for It but to strike out for the nearest land. When they struck the water both were thrown -clear but the gunner whacked his head against something. In one way or another (presumably McKean helped ,hls companion) they made the beach and were promptly put ln durance vile by the German shore patrol. McKean Is a slim man, 54 years of age. To look at him he might be anywhere between 45 and 55, one- of those Scots who attain a lightly fleshed middle-age and stay there Indefinitely. He has a narrow face, the hair thlntflngr backward and graying in contrast to a pair of heavy pointed eyebrows the color of Iron rust. Beneath these the eyes are a startling blue. He looks a bit like the latrf Lord Tweedsmulr, In undress" mufti he wears a pair seam elegantly emphasized, a light sweater for a vest and a blue blazer. On the little finger of 'his left hand he wears a heavy gold signet. The hands would go well around a golf club. ' . 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With 5 Blue Gillette SI ,50 uiaaes in lovely letmnine case. ward, he learned in Switzerland tain from the time of its peace keenness to do fell, not to'.,falj. where there is more open space establishment to the present dl- than in the vicinity of Ottawa. He menslons. looks forward with some treplda- Finds Airmen Keen tlon to doing slaloms around the This Is what Air Vice-Marshal trees. . McKean says about the Canadian l"av and Ai Land Sea And Air filers now in training: Mckean Is a Scot of lengthy "I've been around quite .bit residence in the far east and now and seen a large number of their down on the courses and - then to get across to the fighting." . , Why do the boys want to get l l u l llir T 1 1 J it l im l rryi r ' vu ii 1 1 n said, "someone remarked I wish' I'd said it The navy couki by Cftm a iinlmooinri Vila o f o cfrnrxVi a at last in Ottawa. His parents establishments and two things u fh tha a.r fnrr.a. 1h Were both. Scotch and he was born seem to me to be particularly ,v, u McKean was.-dltched" (crashed) Ireland "too long ago." striking. wiit three times before he and a ma- he was in a naval "One Is the keenness to get on ' '"' " . i chine gunner hit the water off a,crammer.s school in Waies and ln wlth the 1ob Q. therp are The Air Vice-Marshal corrtem-! May he went Into the King's Navy "teething' troubles, shortage of P'ates tne future. He believes that as a Junior officer. Until 1914 he equipment and that sort of thins tlme the Brlsh wl make- knocked around the globe in vari- and that's nobody's fault. It is ln-i 5ure wiere W1U De no "Pi"on or ous ships, spending some years evitable. But what I say about the inii lul."S- we Dougni mis iwice, on China Station. In 1914 he join- keenness applies equally to ttie we won't. buy it again." V ed the .Royal Naval Air Service and service training schools . and the H fnrP thi ihtmv nfi never thereafter went back to the ' preliminary civilian schools. fflmi' cort of international alr! sea-ttiat Is on ships. "I've seen a lot of trainees, pdnce to keep the order ofW When the Royal Air Force was PUots, observers, radio opener W0Ti Aggressors would be bombed! formed, combining the R. N.A. S. jand air gunners and I found them before they could start anythin" ; and the- Royal Flying Corps, Mc- all very Intelligent, well set up and Kean vwent Into that and ln 1911 smart. Of course I could say the n the same day a few months was Instructing. One of his pupils same tnmg about our own men. aK A vice-Marsnai MCKean. re-' was Air Vice-Marshall Goble, the ,Thls is a new generation. It knows celved word that his only son arid- Australian Chefl of Llaslon down the hall ln Ottawa. After the war-the Air Vice-Marshal served two years at the Air Ministry and worked with, an experimental torpedo squadron until the summer of 1924 when he went to Egypt to spend five years at the Hellopolls station. The work there was long range flying and during his stay he made the first flight from Egypt to Aden and back. In 1929 he went home-and served of gray flannel slacks with the two more years tt: the'Alr Minis try, air staff department. When the Air Vice-Marshal came to Canada In March his predecessor, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, since named com mander of the British forces ln the Far East with plenipotentiary powers, noted that McKean had been closely associated with the expansion of the Royal Air Force training organization In Great Brl- its own mind. his nephew had been killed flying; "And the second thing Is. the against the Germans. J A WARM HOUSE S7tourandt sleet -If you .proper. HV7 GOV? Xr Aids In making the Christinas season an enjoyable one. 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