The Limitation of Air Warfare The declaration of British policy
regarding the air is ambiguous. In its condemnation of the bombardment of civilian populations from the air the British Government, according to its official memorandum, would be prepared to go to any length, in agreement with other Powers, to achieve this object. Yet it will not go to the length of accepting the American proposal for the abolition of bombing aeroplanes, preferring a limitation of size and number and the adoption of rules, admirable no doubt on paper, for the prohibition of bombing from the air "save within limits to be laid down as precisely as possible by an international convention." Is this really a practical proposition ? However, if the British declaration about going to any length is to be taken at its face value a great deal may yet be accomplished. The Disarmament Conference is about to adjourn under not very satisfactory circumstances and apparently with the not very satis- factory prospect of further limited conversations between a small group of the chief naval Powers. Recent three- handed conversations between Britain, the United States and France have already made the rest of the Conference States restive. * *
