The-House of Commons on Monday discussed the recent changes in
the Air Service, and the Government gave no explanation what- ever of the most regrettable resignation of General Trenchard. We will not say that the loss of the inestimable services of General Trenchard is the most unsatisfactory of the long series of mys- terious episodes in which the Government have parted company with distinguished officers, because it is cliffieult to assign the proper degree of odium to each of these occurrences, but we may at least say that the- resignation of General Trenchard is as unsatis- factory as any in the list. We speak of "resignation," as that is the accepted word, but, as Sir Edward Carson pointed out, the distinction between resignation and dismissal has become a very slight one. Every one must sympathize sincerely with the mental and physical distress which brought about Lord 'Rothermere's resignation from the Air Ministry, but it is none the less to be deplored that his health and his personal afflictions prevented him from giving a public explanation of his differences with General Trenchard.
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