DEPENDENCE ON NAVY
BRITAIN’S DEFENCES PLANES NO SUBSTITUTE LONDON, Feh. 24. Speaking at Fly-mouth, Mr Neville Chamberlain said that some people regarded the navy as obsolete, and would rather trust to aeroplanes. If other countries had aeroplanes, Britain must, but the plane was no substitute for a cruiser. Britain had set the world an example in disarmament, but there was a limit beyond which she could not go alone. England was not self-contained, and needed ships to bring her essential commodities, and could only- guard ships with ships.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18332, 26 February 1934, Page 7
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88DEPENDENCE ON NAVY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18332, 26 February 1934, Page 7
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