STILL CLAMANT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1942, Page 6

STILL CLAMANT

NEED FOR PLANES IN LARGE NUMBERS

NEW MINISTER'S APPEAL

(Rec. noon.)

RUGBY, Feb. 23

A warning that a second Battle of Britain might start at any moment, and on an even greater scale, was given by Colonel J. J. Llewellin, the new Minister of Aircx-aft Production, in a message to all men and women in aircraft factories.

Colonel Llewellin was urging that the production of efficient aeroplanes in large numbers was even more necessary this year than in the summer and autumn of 1940. "We now have more fronts to man," he said. "Our own homes and factories must still be defended. The Royal Navy needs a larger air arm to work with the Fleet, and the seas around our shores still have to be patrolled. Our Russian allies must have every aeroplane we can give them, if they are successfully. to carry on and complete their, wonderful victory. The Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand. India, and Burma, in their new peril, plead for the products of your plants.

"The need for trainers is as insistent as-it ever was, and the only way in which, for the time being, we can strike back from Britain at the heart of the enemy, is by masses of bombers and. masses of. bombs. .There, are pilots waiting for planes to carry them""'on their great crusade. I know these pilots can rely upon you to deliver the goods, and that the country can count on each one to put forth his uttermost effort in its hour of need." —

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