GIFT OF PLANES
To The Editor
Sir,—Several letters appearing in your paper recently indicate that people at last are beginning to realize that the object of paramount importance is to win the war and talk about rehabilitation later. As France has now surrendered and Britain has no useful foothold on the Continent it would appear that the war must be fought and won in and from the air.
I feel sure that people would subscribe liberally to a fund to help Britain to purchase aeroplanes, and if the Government will undertake to supply exchange of the kind and quantity required to purchase the aeroplanes and would give a public undertaking that it will do so up to a definite amount, if that is subscribed by the public, then I feel sure that the response from those willing to give would surprise even the most optimistic. It is no good talking of subscribing money for an object if the currency cannot be obtained to fulfil the object. I would willingly give £lOO to this object.—Yours, etc., M. H. MITCHEL. July 2, 1940.
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Southland Times, Issue 24168, 3 July 1940, Page 7
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