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Air Strategy

the

Most other points of criticism can well be left until experience suggests the most equitable solu- tion. The Financial Secre- tary has given an assur- ance that the new resolu- tion does not represent the Government's final and irrevocable decision on the numerous repre- contred the assertion that production is inmited, but it can post, restraming a German break- sentations made in con-

the United States, should not strip, do some good to the R.A.F.. it can through into the Atlantic, gaming her own detetives for the sake of do little if any good to us until it time for the increase of our pro- nection with the new tax.sending armament: to Bulan

Would has reached a much highri poten- | ductive cupacity at home.

We are not stepping our we under such circumstances thank He invites patience and a This view of the matter, as far as: tal.

air power is concerned, is based own defences by doing this, be-Fit sound policy to deny to our own- little time for adjustment, on a misapprehension of the fun- Cate We do not now have the, post commander the very type of capacity for naamtaning adequate aircraft he needs most for no bet- and those concerned will damental factors involved.

The to real strength of any a detences; we are increasing the ter reason than that if he is de- doubtless be prepared to air force is based

ww might later an op two chief chances of not having to fight at teated

atreraft those

for Our (1) Numbers actually all in this hemamplere by aiding need accept the Government's Beton,

defence" This would available in operating units; (2) the holding of our outpost position home goodwill in this matter.

obyroux Tully, violation the ability to muuttan those hum

f the principle of 1ers in action against an enemy. the ability to arigual foresi

fighting The Polation oppost-1 Raged Much of

nation army, an air force and a feet for from to lease-lend operation have against whom we are armung. Our the purpose of holding that out-

or

not

!

Unless there exists replace lesen, the

Theredore beginning of any war

air power Y

as far as

production

By Major Fielding Eliot

We that

be

Eco-

nomy

force. Yet in the nitary sense how does the stated

aluation differ from the actual?

The

final important, cause of complaint is pos- will rapidly decline as soon as it sibly outside the

I called on to fight breatise bases

What we are really doing, if we pro- began at once and because mall, vince of Government. The probability the air force will be

retain our heavy bombers here, is holding out a reserve against the public's remedy against:tty employed from the very,

contingency of Britam being de- fealed. Now this is not a sound retailers who exploit the, to build up by small crements

The purpose Government tax to boost even

air force, un large a fairly

the far side of the Atlantic, idea in air warlare.

reserve is to keep up con- without possessing the product,ve! and we are sending away nothing of a

ill your ob- their scale of profit is the capacity to maintain that aur free which would be of more than tem- tuity of action

or to have boycott. The ultimate test agnst the heavy losses of combat, porary service to us at home if jective is achieved

fell. This is no something in hund with which to | is uneconomn val m peace and is that outpost

unforeseen turns of the for the consumer of whe-suicidal in war or under the threat gamble, as it

is sometimes de- meet

Bermuuse infantry, once ther an article has had tout war.

seribed; it is the planest of com- combat.

committed to a fight, cannot there- as far as American mon sense. bear duty or not should be The situa.

concerned is this! The principle set forth applies after be withdrawn and used else- where save with great confusion the presence upon it of a We have at pr. nt a comparative to all types of aeroplanes. It is

and loss of time, reserves of in- ly small operating force 131 the ¦ sometimes contended revenue label.

unused forma- Army Air Corpsi # somewhat ought to send the British fighters fantry are fresh,

but keep at tions held under the hand of the larger operating force of naval and light bombers The difficulty of some

aviation. We have "un paper, home the heavy bombers which commander until in his judgment come to put them retailers in making up plans for much larger forces, and figure so largely in our plans for the time has

The reserves of artillery are both in the direction of training hemisphere defence.

It is urged in.. their minds whether cer-

a long time to quite another matter; it is sheer and producing 'planes that these take personnel tain things are dutiable we are making progress. However, produce and likewise the training waste to hold batteries in reserve

will

goes, the of crews for them is a long and which might usefully be firing on disappear arst year or so is the most difficult, arduous task, Quite true, but the enemy. Artillery fire can be when existing stocks are period. It is during that time heavy bombers happen to be the switched from target to target as exhausted and the tax is that the present must be dis-one type of which the R.A.F. are may be needed, the only limita- of range and counted for the future. We could for the moment in greatest need tions being those

ammunition supply. Hence it is imposed at the importer's by diverting all our production and have the least capacity to

said that the true reserve of own factories. or wholesaler's, though into our own forces considerably produce in their we are not at all sure that units and the

increase the number of operating The increases in the fighter com- artillery is its ammunition.

material available! mand and the coastal command

Air forces, because of their high the Hon. Mr. Todd's state- to existing units; but we could not of the Royal Air Force made since speed, carrying out their missions rather than days, before 1942 have

any hope of the war began have greatly within hours ment wholly clarified the

Deing able Lo muintain that creased the defensive security of and the high degree of flexibility, speed and range, position even for them, augmented force if it were called the island of Great Britain against owing to both

upon to fight, it would swiftly direct air attack; in other words, permits the same units to be em unless it is intended that be wasted away, and we could not Britain has been compelled first ployed on a series of missions. the radius of there is to be a form of Im-replace the losses to be expected of all to make sure of not losing anywhere within

In a conf.ict

under-taking action from

bases within major the any perial Preference under

short time limits. Their enemy. This is a hard, cold fact mensures designed to win it. But very

supply systems the new scheme. If this is which cannot be argued away and all history tells us that some time, organisation and

which we dure not disregard. somehow there must be a return are, however, highly complicated, framework not to offensive action if victory is to forming a rigid

expansion. of sudden Best Chance

be attained, and for that purpose capable

continuity the need is for heavy, long-range Hence for

of action large bomb what is really required is, first of Hence, while the task of in- bon.bers carrying sold under a name or creasing our

In the new stage of the all, a force adequate to perform productive capacity loads. synonym specified in the continues, our chance of making Battle of Britain just opening, in the mission or missions decided German object is to upon, and, second, the ability to some use of such 'planes as we which the British Pharmacopoeia or are able to turn out is to transfer cut the Atlantic sea lanes the use keep that force at its full operating the mission, has the British Pharmaceuti- them to the one operating and of long-range aircraft both over strength until

and in been, accomplished. The reserve, fighting, air force which can use seas as convoy escorts

the German of air forces, therefore, lies in cal Codex will not be duti- them, and which is actively en- counter-attacks on

bases, may well be decisive. the ability to replace and repair able," it cries out for ex-

machines and to replace Dying planation. For it seems to when it cannot be suggest- Folly To Withhold › personnel. To hold out air force units which could be usefully cm- confer privilege upon ed that Government has Look at it in this way, for clari-ployed is as great a mistake as to of artillery

the correct interpretation

of the statement that "any substance made and

with

•

war

before

their

privileged members of the been excessively. gener-fication: Suppose the British Isles hold out batteries

were American territory. Suppose which could be firing on a worth- community, at a timeous to the lower strata. the United States had, thore an, while...target”

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