Title: First International Aeronautic Exhibition
Artist: Coalquolto
Year of Publication: 1935
Publisher: N/A
Language: French
Size: 26 1/8" x 38 1/2"
Index Number: 00109

Description:

First International Aeronautic Exhibition. October 12-28, 1935 Milan Fair.

Planned as a continuing biennial event, the timing was not good for the First International Aricraft Exhibition sponsored by the Italian government in Milan. In 1935, only a few days before the fair, Mussolini invaded and took over Ethiopia, causing hard feelings amongst the European colonial powers, especially Great Britain who in protest did not officially attend the Milan fair. The timing also was not good for the future of the Exhibition, begun on the eve of the second World War; another fair was held in Milan in October 1937, but Europe was at war by 1939 with Poland and Czeckoslovakia occupied by Germany, and Albania occupied by Italy.