Members in all parties are thoroughly roused to the dangers
of German rearmament in the air. Feeling that they have been grossly misled as to the size of the German Air Force they are not prepared to accept the statement that only equality has been reached, but are contending that Germany has already achieved at least a fifty per cent. superiority over our own Air Force. What adds to the alarm is the rumour that the -Air Ministry, in the matter of the new squadrons for which the supplementary estimates were agreed upon last July, is now proceeding leisurely to order aeroplanes of the same type as were being constructed more than ten years ago. There is a growing demand for the supersession of Lord Londonderry, and it is now believed certain that in the coming recon- struction of the Government not the least important change will be at the Air Ministry. * * * • *
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