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driven home to England the vital Inn
portance of air power Equally in
structive material could be presented
from Germany, from France, from
Italy and from Russia; but the Brit
ish material is more convenient and
accessible. Mr.. Bahour, in the
House of Commons, said:
1T would avail nothing to England
to have control of the sea unless it
had also control of the air."
ENGLIsHMAN SEES NEED.
Lord Montagu, of Beaulieu, in
the House of Lords, March 9, said;
AT the present. time the air ser
vice is merely auxiliary to the fight
ing forces of the navy and army.
can see a time coming when the
air service will be more important
than the army and navy. We must
get into the habit of looking at the
air service, not as an auxiliary to
the army and navy, but as great
service which is an establishment
of itself and to which we shall have
to look in future years for the de-
Tense of this country The
advantages of our insularity are rap
idly disappearing. Upon the eff
cheney of the air service much will
depend Let it not be said with
shame of our generation that we
did not trouble to guard in the air
what our forefathers won on the
sea-"
Lord Beresford said: "The new
air warfare is going to be of so
| tremendous a character that it may
supersede the army and navy. Any
way, we should be ahead in the air,
as we are on the water"
Lord Montagu, of Beaulieu, guest
of the Liberal war committee at
luncheon at the House of Commons,
March 20, said among other things:
AVIATION PUT FOREMOST.
HE had come to speak to ser
ious and well informed body on the
need of concentrating special at
tention and effort on aviation. He
was pleading for more energetic
policy in regard to all forms of air
craft The struggle for su-
premacy in the air was only just
beginning and would not stop when
peace came. -. Compared with
the cost of dreadnaughts, field guns
and armies in the field, the cost of
even huge aerial fleet would be
smaln
1"What was wanted now in our
statesmen and in our Nation was
more power of imagination. They
could neither win nor hold an en-
pire merely by safe policies. Safe
men were all very well for times of
peace. But time came when they
might be dangerous. What they
wanted now was new men with new
! ideas.
Problems of the air were all
new. There were no presidents to-
bear in mind, no files to refer to,
no historical works to consult. The
new service would need leaders, who
had ideals, foresight, Imagination
and scientific training. These lead
ers must always have clear Wis
ion of future possibilities, most of
which were probabilities
SAME APPLIES HERE.
All the above applies equally to-
u.s. 1t might be said in Washing
Ton, in committee room or on the
floor of Congress.
One week of present war cost to
Great Britain would give this coun-
try such fleet of aeroplanes as
could in an emergency rise from
our shores literally like flock of
sea-gulls, to defend and insure our
National integrity.
The basic ideals of this country,
born of our ancestry, our National
growth, our physical position, are
bigness and realization. These two
ideals are our ever present though
sometimes unconscious trend, in ev-
cry line of effort. Here is an OPP
portunity for us to make good on
these ideals ON a great scale, by
taking up in earnest the air SER
vice of this Nation, recognizing that