pilots locally.
Remainder of squadron could be provided according
toed and opportunity. If H. M. Government's immediate need of
aeroplanes were to preclude approval of this proposal, we would
build more ships.
I have suggested that expenditure of war budget revenue on
local defences in the first instance partly as likely to appeal
strongly to local sentiment and partly because in cash terms largest
amount we could raise would not be highly significant.
If I can obtain your approval of the foregoing in principle, I
shall have the immediate co-operation of the Commander-in-Chief for
the naval proposal. I have not yet consulted the Air Vice Marshal
but the local Royal Air Force @ommand is informing him of what I
Have in mind.
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