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AVIATION should be a Blessing:
to-day it is EUROPE'S CURSE
TELL the House that I have been made almost physically slek to think
that I and my friends and statesmen in every country in Europe, two thousand years after our Lord was crucified, should be spending our time thinking how we can get the mangled bodies of children to hospital and how we can keep the poison gas from going down the throats of our people."
Since Mr. Baldwin made that statement in the House of Come mons in 1935, the conselence of the world has received a profound shock.
It
Italy, a country looked upon by many of us as one of the greatest centres of culture and European civilisation, has broken her inter- national
forbidding agreements the use of polson gas, and poured the indiscriminately from heavens upon Abyssinian villages.
To-day a few thousand peasants in Wallo are groping their way down the dark years because of a dictator; whose name they have never heard of, but whoso decree of ruthlessness has put out their суев.
Wallo Is a long way from Char- Ing Cross-yes, but not for acro- planes. Is it not time that the peoples of Europe asked their statesmen, "Whither to-morrow?"
N
·ATIONAL struggies con- cern every man in the country, every wife in every home
child and every playing in the street. The aero- plane hns diverted the full force and fury of war from the battle-ground to the home and nursery, and each one of us has his responsibility for this altua- tion.
How has this danger come upon Europe and why, despite the re- luctant horror and forebodings of the statesmen of all countries, do
"National" Governments- continue to build more and more kombing acroplanes in order to avert the danger of bombing?
our
Take a brief survey of the post- tion. In 1914 the aeroplane was
THE author of this articlo was a flying officer during the war and served with tho R.A.F. from 1927 tô 1932, being mentioned in dispatches during the st air operations against the Kurds. He was member of the special commiter on International Aviation set up by the League of Nations in 1934, and is the author, of a recently published book, "Humanity, Air Power ond War."
perous toy, yet the outbreak of the World War soon demonstrated its value as a fighting weapon.
This fact once realised, the new art of flying found itself promoted from a poverty-stricken hobby of the scientifically minded, or youth- fully adventurous, to the first con- sideration of desperate Govern- ments.
The brains and wealth of these Governments were lavished upon the selence of fight, and it has well been said that war was the birth of aviation. Aviation, stil prostituted to war, will be tho death of civilisation.
The Increase in Air Power up to 1918 is well known-the increase in is destructive powers since that date is not yet renlised outside ofcial circles.
General Groves, In his book, "Belind the Smoke Screen," writes: "Whereas in the late war some 300 tons of bombs were dropped in this country by the Germans, air, forces to-day could drop almost the same amount in the first twenty-four hours and continue this scale of attack in- .definitely." This statement has
never been challenged.
E same author throws valuable light upon how such power will be used in the next war. He says: "I Europe, warfare, hither- le primarily an affair of fronts. will be henceforth primarily an affair of areas. In this war of
by Captain
Philip S. Mumford
bombers will
not be primarily nemies or pavlen, but the life of the civil community.
If aeroplanes are bringing this danger to QUE homes, whint counterbalancing protection are we to expect from neroplanes? Can they defend us, our country or our Government? They can- not do so. To quote Mr. Baldwin once again:----
I think it is well for the man in the street to realise that there is no man on earth who can pro- Feet him from being bombed, whatever people may tell him.
The only defence is offence, which means that you have got to 1 more women and children more quickly than the enemy it you want to saye yourselves."
The only possible solution, the Internationalisation of all air power, both civil and military, was' not only proposed at Geneva in 7033, but received the support of the delegates of France, Spain, Poland. Belgium, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Jugo- slavia and Turkey.
The USA., Canada, Argentina. Japan and Germany offered to give the scheme sympathelle considera- tlon and assistance, and, indeed, salvation might well have been achieved but for the indisguised hostly of the British Air Minia- ter, Lord Londonderry.
'Our Imperialists, still ready to struggle towards the mirage of na-
little more than clumsy and dan---arcas-the-alm-of-such-belligerents--tional glory at the risk of antlonul
To-day's Thought-
WHEN a man tries himself,
the verdict is usually in
his favour. --E. W. HOWE,
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will be to bring pleasure to bear upon the enemy pcopic so as to force them to oblige their govern- ment to sue for peace."
The position, then, is clear for all to sec. The targets for these
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annihilation, make the excuse that the efficiency of commercial aviation depends upon national control.
It is, of course, abvious that the abolition of National Air Forces
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There are no insuperabla dil- culties preventing the Govern- ments of Europe from creating an international authority empowered to control all main air traffic.
Such an institution would be given the power to buy out all existing companies.
It would be solely responsible for all nerodromes, pliots and ground staff. the personnel being re- cruited upon an
International
basis, and their training in bomb- ing and other forms of military aviation forbidden.
They would also be solely re- sponsible for orders for material, by means of which they could, in due course, influence the wholo aircraft industry from a national into an international basis.
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The aeroplane has diverted the full force and fury of war
from the battle- ground, to the home and the nursery."
national Air Police-much as our railways keep special poller for their own purposes.
By this mothed the national frontiers of Europe could no longer hinder the flight of machines. Aerodromes would be floodlit by night and machines plying their way twenty-four hours in the day as is the case in America.
U
NDER the present air- cumstances, national and military considera- tions have strangled the one great asset
of the aeroplane-speed. Foreign machines may not travel direct routes, because of "stra- tegle" areas and needs, and may not travel at night.
There is no practical reason why the aeroplane should not be inter- national. It is only being pre- vented by military prejudices.
Aviation should be a blessing- to-day it is Europe's curse. It will become a benefit to humanity only when it is removed out of tho. hands of the Nationalists and med for world service.
OVERNMENT subsidies towards avintion. and when necessary. would be made only through this International organisation and thus would no longer Have a mill- Discipline tary basis or blas, within the air world would be ing for a maintained by their own Inter-Atables at night and cuts off the
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