The current Estimates provide no less than £23,000,000 for the Air Forees—a sum nearly as great as we spent upon the Army before the war-to-end-war began. Large as this sum is, it is a bagatelle to what we shah have to spend in the years to come unless a League of Nations becomes effective and succeeds in abolishing aerial armaments, Already, a chorus of voices is raised to denounce our unpreparedness for war in the air, Their burden is that we must, at al] costs, maintain fighting air supremacy.
Let it be clearly realized that if there is to be a "next war' it will be fought by the engineer and the chemist as never war has yet been fought. The horrors of 1914-1918 pele their ineffectual fires before the practical possibilities of the future.
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