HSC Web Site: http://www.hollywoodstampclub.com/ HOLLYWOOD STAMP CLUB AUGUST 2020 HOLLYWOOD VOL 56 ISSUE 8 PHILATELIST INDEX France - Letter from 1938 - 1st Air Mail Transport with- CSA Sabena 1937 FFC, By Editor HSC Newsletter front page …………… P . 1 out surcharge - with English stamp - with claws FFC To London, General delivery, returned to sender. France The Societé Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation German 1900 Cover ………………...…...P . 1 Ceres, Scott 335 1.75 Fr Postmarked June 1, 1938. Upon arrival Aérienne (French; "Belgian Corporation for Air Navigation Ser- vices"), better known internationally by the acronym Sabena Cons. PBY Catalina ………………………...P . 2 in London additional postal added King George VI Scott 235 1/2 pence, deep green. [needs or SABENA, was the national airline of Belgium from CAS Sabena FFC …………………………..P . 1/8 1923 to 2001, with its base at Brussels National Airport. After its bankruptcy in 2001, the newly formed SN Brussels Airlines HSC PAGE & MEMBERS’ ……...………. P . 2 took over part of Sabena's assets in February 2002, which be- came Brussels Airlines after a merger with Virgin Express in East India Co, ……………………………… P . 3 March 2007. The airline's corporate headquarters were located in the Sabena House on the grounds of Brussels Airport in Old Kingdoms …………………………….P. 4/6 Zaventem. In Europe, Sabena opened services to Copenhagen Editor’s Ancestors Origins ………… P . 6/7 CSA Sabena Airlnes …………………….. P . 8 US DOD Forces …………………………… P . 9 ENRIQUE SETARO HSC EDITOR GB COVID-19 VVVVVVVVV First Flight Cover. Pari, Le Bourget to London Croydon, Airport. Air Union “Artois” Farman F- 60 Goliath F-CGEA. Com- pagnie des Grands Ex- and Malmö in 1931 and a route to Berlin was initiated in 1932. press Aériens, The mainstay pre-war airliner that Sabena used in Europe was The Farman F.60 Goli- the successful Junkers Ju 52/3m airliner. The airline's pre-war ath was a routes covered almost 6,000 km within Europe. While the Brus- French airliner and bomber produced by the Farman Aviation sels Haren Airport was Sabena's main base, the company also Works from 1919. It was instrumental in the creation of early operated services from other Belgian airports, and had a do- airlines and commercial routes in Europe after World War I. mestic network that was mainly used by businessmen who wanted to be in their coastal villas for the weekend. Cont. P .8 1 HSC’s Officers and Members of the Board for 2020 President: David Medeiros ry branch of U.S. Navy, but the amphibious versions re- the United mained in service for some years. The last [email protected] States Armed Catalina in U.S. service was a PBY-6A oper- Vice-President: Parker Bailey Forces and in ating with a Naval Reserve squadron, which the air forces was retired from use on 3 January 1957. Treasurer: Sussi Seiler and navies of [4] The Catalina Rec. Secretary: Hilda Bailey many other nations. subsequently During World War II, PBYs were used equipped the Membership Comm.: Robert La- in anti-submarine warfare, patrol bomb- world's smaller voie ing, convoy escort, search and res- armed services into the late Asst.: Hamlet Gayadeem cue missions (especially air-sea rescue), and cargo transport. The PBY was the most 1960s in fairly Editor: Enrique Setaro numerous aircraft of its kind, and the last substantial num- military PBYs served until the 1980s. As of bers. [email protected] 2014, nearly 80 years after its first flight, The Brazilian Air Asst. Editor: Thomas Walend the aircraft continues to fly as Force flew Cat- a waterbomber (or airtanker) in aerial fire- alinas in naval Chairman of B: Karl Shallenberger fighting operations in some parts of the world. air patrol mis- [email protected] sions against Directors: There are 30 countries that operate the Catalina Flying Boats in various capacities. Jacqueline Cortes, Kim Castellano We will show stamps Richard Knierem, Michael Rogers with this aircraft from some of the Richard Sandler countries that issued Consolidated PBY Catalina them. The Consolidated PBY Catalina, also known German as the Canso in Canadian service, is an With the end of subma- American flying boat, and later the war, all of the rines start- an amphibious aircraft of the 1930s and flying boat ver- ing in 1940s produced by Consolidated Aircraft. It sions of the Catali- was one of the most widely used seaplanes na were quickly 1943. © of World War II. Catalinas served with eve- retired from the 2 HSC Web Site: http://www.hollywoodstampclub.com/ East India Company, By Editor into the East- not need to be returned but could be trad- Indies", the com- ed on a stock exchange). By contrast, The East India Company (EIC), also known pany rose to ac- wealthy merchants and aristocrats owned as the Honorable East India Company count for half of the EIC's shares. Initially the government (HEIC), East India Trading Company the world's EIC Flag owned no shares and had only indirect (EITC), the English East India Company or trade, particularly control until 1657 when permanent joint the British East India Company, and infor- in basic commodities including cotton, silk, stock was established. mally known as John Company, Company indigo dye, salt, spices, saltpeter, tea, and Bahadur, or simply The Company, was an By 1803, at the height of its opium. The company also ruled the begin- rule in India, the British East English and later British joint-stock compa- nings of the British Empire in India. In his ny. It was formed to trade in the Indian India company had a private speech to the House of Commons in July army of about 260,000— 1833, Lord Macaulay explained that since twice the size of the British the beginning, the East India Company had Army, with Indian revenues always been involved in both trade and of £13,464,561 politics, just as its French and Dutch coun- (equivalent to £229.9 million terparts had been. in 2019) and expenses of The company re- £14,017,473 (equivalent to ceived a Royal £239.3 million in 2019). The Charter from company eventually came to Queen Elizabeth I rule large are- on 31 December as of India with its private 1600, coming rel- armies, exercising military atively late to power and seizing adminis- EIC London Office Building trade in the In- trative functions. Company Ocean region, initially with the Moghuls of dies. Before them EIC Coat of Arms. rule in India effectively be- India and the East Indies, and later with the Portuguese gan in 1757 and lasted until Qing China. The company ended up seizing Estado da India had traded there for much 1858, when, following the Indian Rebellion control of large parts of the Indian subcon- of the 16th century and the first of half a of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 tinent - and briefly Afghanistan, colonized dozen Dutch Companies sailed to trade led to the British Crown's assuming direct parts of Southeast Asia, and colonized there from 1595. These Dutch companies control of the Indian sub- Hong Kong after the First Opium War. amalgamated in March 1602 into the Dutch continent in the form of East India Company (VOC), which intro- the new British Raj. Originally chartered as the "Governor and duced the first permanent joint stock from Stamps of the East India Company of Merchants of London Trading 1612 (meaning investment into shares did Company shown. © 3 MONARCHIES THAT NO LONGER EX- prewar political and economic instability, technolog- In the summer of 1919, a IST, By Editor ical backwardness, and fundamental social divi- Habsburg, Archduke Joseph sions, coupled with gross mismanagement of the August, became regent, but British Ultimatum and end of war effort, continuing military defeats, domestic was forced to stand down Portuguese monarchy economic dislocation, and outrageous scandals sur- after only two weeks when it (1890–1910). The Pink rounding the monarchy." became apparent the Allies Map, more generally known would not recognise him. With his authority destroyed, Nicholas abdicated on in English-language known [211] Finally, in March 1920, 2 March 1917. The execution of the Romanov fami- as the Rose-Colored Map, royal powers were entrusted ly at the hands of Bolsheviks followed in 1918. Wilhelm II was a document prepared in to a regent, Miklós Horthy, 1885 to represent Portugal's Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro- who had been the last commanding admiral of King Carlos I claim of sovereignty over a Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was the Austro-Hungarian Navy and had helped organ- land corridor connecting their colonies a constitutional monarchy and great power ize the counter-revolutionary forces. It was this of Angola and Mozambique during the "Scramble in Central and Eastern Europe between 1867 and government that signed the Treaty of Trianon un- for Africa". The project to connect the two colonies, 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian der protest on 4 June 1920 at the Grand Trianon the Pink Map, was the main objective of Portu- Compromise of 1867, and was dissolved following Palace in Versailles, France. guese policy in the 1880s. the First World War. The German Empire, sometimes referred to However, the idea was unacceptable to the British, The new Austrian state was, at least on paper, on as Imperial Germany, was the German nation state who had their own aspirations of contiguous British shakier ground than Hungary. Unlike its former that existed from the unification of Germany in territory running from Cairo to Cape Town. Hungarian partner, Austria had never been a nation 1871 until the abdica- The British Ultimatum of 1890 was imposed upon in any real sense.