Sherlock Holmes: There's going to be a bomb on a passenger jet. British and American governments know about it, but rather than expose the source of their information, they're going to let it happen. The plane will blow up. Coventry all over again. The wheel turns, nothing is ever new.

The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe.

The majority of the theophorous elements are based on Yah rather than el. Daiches believed that this was intended to make a clear theological distinction from el, which was a widely used Semitic term for a divinity.

Doc Savage doubted that he would carry out the threat, and thought the plane was still airworthy.