FIRST LINE AIRCRAFT FOR DEFENCE
“VERY SLENDER NUMBER” (United Press Association—By Electrio - Telegraph—Copyright) ' LONDON, ltlli March. Tlie Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air, Sir Philip Sassoon, in iHe House of Commons said first-line aircraft available for Empire defence * when the 12 new gquadrons provided for in the current air estimates were equipped will he approximately 430. ■ Mr O’. E. Simmonds (Conservative, Duddeston) referred to “this very slender number,” and asked if the Government was relying for the defence of the Empire on denuding home defences as had been in the dispute between Italy and Abyssinia
i Sir Philip replied: “I require notice of that question.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 13 March 1936, Page 5
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