Evening star., 1938-05-29
PAR|SANDL0ND0N
TIGHTEN A|RL|NKS
Air Mission Arrives
Today to Facilitate
Cooperation.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LONDON, May 2S.-Co-ordination
Of the British and French air forces.
q measure of war preparedness" de-
cfded upon when the French premier,
Edouard Daladier and his foreign
minister, Georges Bonnet, visited Lon
don late in April and talked with
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain,
and Foreign Secretary Viscount Hall
fax, will be brought a step nearer real
ization next week.
Gen. Vuillemin, chief OF the French
air staff. and five officers Of senior
rank in the French air force will ar
rive in London tomorrow on what Is
officially described as "a courtesy visit
of inspection" Of British Royal All
Force bases and factories.
Accompanied by the British all
attache in Paris and the French all
attache in London, Gen. Vuillemir
and his party will be taken behind
the scenes in favor Of the most i'm
portant r. A. F. establishments tc
study the best ways Of linking thu
British and French air fleets in the
event Marshal Hermann Wilhelm
Georing's bombers head for London
or Paris.
Labor to Be Divided.
Tn another war a division OF labor
between the British and French all
forces would be one of the principal
devices Of common of1ense and de-
fense by the Western democracies
since the British do not contemplate
sending another large expeditionary
army to France as in 1914-1918. A
working arrangement for assigning the
British and French fleets to respective
spheres OF duty in which they would
not waste time and motion by over
tapping, is another bit of strategy.
Cooperation between the French
and British air forces, navies ane
armies Is the foundation Of the genuin,
military alliance of the pre-war mode
which London and Paris effected al
the discussions here in April.
Under the scheme for linking the
air forces, French and British plane.
will be treated as one unit. probably
under the supreme command of 6
British Marshal Foch" of the air.
Information TO Be Pooled.
Plans have been outlined for pooltns
technical information about aeronau.
tics. Prototypes Of the latest ma.
chimes in the British and French COM
mands will be exchanged. so thai
pilots in both countries will be familiar
with every aspect of them. Reserve
supplies of raw materials, gasoline ano
oil will be established for the joint USE
Of the air fleet.
French air bases will be at the dis
posal Of the British in time of war
This will give added range and de-
structive capacity to British bombers
the production Of which is the pre-
occupation Of the air ministry
These and other points will be deal
with by Gen. Vuillemin and his aides
during their tour next week. Follow.
ing reception on Monday by Sil
Kingsley Wood, newly appointed Brit.
ish air minister. the French delegation
will be taken to the r. A. F. base al
Northolt, Middlesex. home of the
Hawker Hurricane, light bomber, which
has achieved speed of more thar
400 miles an hour.
During the week the visitors also viii
inspect the r. A. F. stations at Gran.
well, Maraham and the Bristol airplans
factory at Bristol, Worcestershire.
After luncheon to be given by the
British Air Council next Saturday, thu
Frenchmen will fly back to Paris.
The French air mission is considered
here particularly well-timed demon.
stration OF Anglo-French solidarity. ir
the face of continued tension ovel
Chancellor Adolf Hitlers ambitions II
Czechoslovakia.
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