POST-WAR POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1944, Page 4

POST-WAR POLICY

AIR POWER FACTOR RUGBY, January 18. The Duke of Sutherland, president of the League of the British Empire, speaking at a Mansion House meeting, said: "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 postwar air transport, and it will have to draw up one that will be in harmony wtih 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 other 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."—B.O.W.