24 MAY 1940, Page 6

When a Daily Mail representative interviewed Air Vice- Marshal Croll,

the head of the Royal Canadian Air Force and chief organiser of the Empire Air Training scheme, he was greeted with the question, " This is for the people back home, isn't it? " There is something strangely comforting in those two words " back home," repeated as they were—naturally and, so to speak, inevitably—later in the interview. At a moment like this they are worth several thousand books and speeches on Imperial unity.