[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With regard to the
letters you have been publishing under the heading, " The Aviation Boom," may I be per- mitted to record a profound personal conviction ? It is this : that we are steadily heading for a new general war around 1933, if not sooner, and that the shortest and most effective cut towards peace, and towards the avoidance of that conflict, would be the abolition of the aeroplane, lock, stock and the rest I have just returned from Northern Italy. All round Milan intensive building is going on so that a veritable twin camou- flage city will eventually emerge to hinder French bombers • picking out their targets. This is Signor Mussolini's sound and latest contribution to the subject. The aeroplane has transformed war. Men desire to indulge the transformation. And they will.
May I place on record the opinion—and I trust people will not write stupid letters asking whether I have ever been up in an aeroplane, as they did in the case of Sir Leo Chiozza Money--that the aeroplane might be banished from the world to-morrow, for all the peace, pleasure, or use it serves, and very few indeed be the losers"; that the aeroplane is eighty or ninety per cent. a weapon for destroying mankind ?—I am, Sir, &c., FERDINAND TUOHY.
Pau, France.
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