For example, it is impossible to imagine seaplanes without }sweat
ships. And as for military aeroplanes, they are of course the very eyes of the artillery, and a modern army could not take the field without them. The gunners who have not got aeroplanes to direct their fire are like men whose.eyes have been plucked out. But a solution of the difficulties which will satisfy-all three Services is easily conceivable. An Air Ministry while directing Air policy— that is to,say, having far more authoritydhan the present Board, which simply thinks out the supply of the machines demanded by the Army and the Navy—would of course have to satisfy the demands of both Army and Navy before it could contemplate .indepeadent offensives of-its awn. There will certainly have to he a very high degree of co-operation in the future. Happy co-operation will overcome every difficulty, while jealousy will produce min.
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