BRITISH DEFENCES

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 140, 10 March 1938, Page 11

BRITISH DEFENCES

No German Objection Berlin, March 8. Political circles are walling to accept Mr. Chamberlain’s assurances that the British rearmament is not aggressive, said a Government spokesman. “As long as British armaments resemble those of a porcupine, meaning that they are purely defensive, no objection can be raised,” he said.

civil aviation matters and to ensure full and constant correlation of policy of civil and military aviation and the appointment of a Deputy-Director-General of Civil -Aviation and of a Director of Civil Research and Production.

The Government has not yet reached a decision on the suggestion of the committee that an additional Parliamentary Under-Secretary solely concerned with civil aviation should be appointed. The committee was not called upon to consider either broad questions of principle, concerning which the policy of the Government has been fully explained to Parliament, nor matters relating to the development of civil aviation within the United Kingdom, which were the subject of an inquiry and report' by the Maybury Committee.

The report has a number of appendices, including one analysing the subsidies paid over several years to certain European air transport companies. This shows that the subsidy received by Imperial Airways in 1937 represented 23.8 per cent, of its total receipts, compared with 65.4 per cent, for Luft Hansa, 34.3 per cent, for Sabena and 67.8 per cent, for Ala Littoria. The Imperial Airways’ subsidy per ton mile in 1937—1/s.72—was also lower than that for Air France, Luft Hansa, Sabena or Aero Transport of Sweden.