Indeed, history may well show that now was the time when civil aviation was just getting out of its swaddling clothes.
For the first months of its life it is wrapped close and tight in swaddling bands of physical protection from the world.
The child walks as we unwrap the swaddling clothes, the cathedral stands in its full beauty as we remove the scaffolding.
I am only concerned about the presiding officer in the cases of infants still in swaddling clothes, and of his own safety.
We want to get rid of these swaddling clothes of restrictive practices in which so many industries are wrapped up at the moment.
It is a dangerous delusion to imagine that we can obviate the need for strong defence by swaddling ourselves in the vague, comfortable language of international good will.
As the young men or women grow up so gradually you can release the swaddling clothes and the restrictions, so that they can expand themselves and develop.
Swaddling fell out of favor in the seventeenth century.
