Everyone seems to be agreed ° that Sir Samuel Hoare, the
Air Minister, has done a remarkable piece of work in getting a scheme drawn up, within three months of his appointment, to put civil aviation on. a really firm basis. He set up a committee of three prominent business men (Sir Herbert Hambling, of Barclay's Bank, Sir Joseph Broodbank., late of the Port of London Authority, and Mr. Oliver Hoare, of Cox's Bank) to examine the whole position of civil aviation in this country and to make recommendations for the future. Briefly, the committee found' that the present state of things, under which the State gave short-term subsidies to several compara- tively small companies conducting cross-Channel flights, was unsatisfactory. They found that as some subsidy was essential, it should- be really - adequate- and- give " security of tenure."
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