STRONG POLICY URGED

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 96, 19 January 1944, Page 5

STRONG POLICY URGED

Empire Air Planning For

Post-War (British Official Wireless.) (Received January 18, 11 p.m.) RUGBY, January 18. The Duke of Sutherland, president of the League of the British Empire, speaking at a Mansion House meeting, speak“We want to see a league hundreds of thousands strong and a power throughout the length and breadth of the land. The British Government has not yet announced its policy on post-war air transport, and it will have to draw one up that will be in harmony with our great ally on the other side of the Atlantic.” “There is, I believe, a very strong feeling throughout our great Empire and England that after the war we shall be second to none'in aviation, both military and civil,” said Viscount Bennett. “It is life and death with us that we should continue to maintain our supremacy in the transport business. Nothing but an Empire air service will be satisfactory. The British Empire is better suited for air transport than any country or group of countries in the world and has a greater need.” Urging future co-operation between the United States, Russia and Britain, he Said: “Air power will be the most dominant power in the future. No other power will compare with air power. Let us hope we have heard the last of disarmament as far as the United Nations are concerned.”