THE PRIME MINISTER AND REARMAMENT
[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] S1R,—In your leading article of November 20th you condemn the Prime Minister for his failure to trust the people in 1933, with the result that we are two years late in rearmament. You then say—surprisingly—" On this occasion no grave damage has been done." We can only hope and pray that you are right. But at the moment it does not seem so. Our present front-line aeroplane strength is barely half that of Germany, and it is practically impossible for us to make up this appalling disparity during the year 1937. For the next eighteen months, therefore, we shall be in a position of extreme vulnerability. It is, indeed, no exaggeration to say that we have never been in such danger, except possibly for a few weeks in 1917, for the past three hundred years.
In the circumstances, is it not a little optimistic to say that no grave damage has been done ?—Yours,
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