We can only hope that the appointment of great importance
which the Government say they have in reserve for General 'frenchard will prove not only to be worthy of him, but one in which he can exercise all his talents to beat the Germans at a moment when his country has urgent need of those talents. Nothing else will satisfy the nation now. We recall that the promise that work of importance would be found for Lord Jellicoe has not been fulfilled, and, as somebody has said in Parliament, when last he was heard of he was hanging pictures in a private house. But let us not accept this as an omen. Sir William Weir, the new Air Minister, has done splendid work for the development of flying, and no one who has followed the career of General Sykes, the new Chief of the Air Staff, doubts his enthusiasm and brilliant mental powers. We hope that they will insist that General Trenchard shall be as suitably employed as is now possible. We do not exaggerate when we say that if they do not do this the Air Force will suffer to:T:1)1y.
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