STRIKING POWER OF BRITAIN’S AIR FORCE TO BE DEVELOPED
(Rec. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, February 23.
Mr A. Henderson (Secretary for Air) in a memorandum accompanying the air estimates, says the Air Force operational command will continue to develop the practice of improved methods of obtaining maximum effectiveness from the aircraft with which it is equipped. The Air Council, • he added, was giving special attention to . the bomber force since efficient striking forces were Britain’s most effective safeguard against aggression. The council attached great importance to increasing the force’s mobility and reducing dependence on widespread and elaborate base organisation. The council’s aim was, he said, to enable the development of a substantial weight of air power at short notice in any required area. Work on this problem was being done concurrently with planning of the re-development of the Royal Air Force overseas, following the withdrawal from United India, Pakistan and Burma and the relinquishment of the Palestine mandate.
The estimates issued today show a total of £173,000,000—£41,000,000 below the 1947-48 figure.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 February 1948, Page 5
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