16 JUNE 1933, Page 2

The Case Against Bombing ' It is astonishing that so

few of the many- writers on the subject of bombing from the air seem to appreciate the main argument-against the British proposal to retain the right of bombing for police purposes -in what are called " outlying regions." If there is to- be a. general agree- ment on the abolition of bombing- it must mean that no country shall retain bombing-planes, or, what is much more- important (since bombs can, of eourse, be dropped from civil machines), - bombing pilots. An agreement which bans bomb-dropping and yet permits half a dozen countries to maintain- the whole paraphernalia of training in bomb-dropping, and maintain a supply, however limited, of pilots skilled- in bombing is something no British delegation could decently defend.

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