The end of the controversy between Lord Nuftield,-the motor-car. manufacturer, and the Air Ministry over the Government's. plans for. the manufacture. of -aero-engines "is Indicated In statements made to-day, ig both. Houses of Parliament, Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary of State for Air, announced in the House of Commons that he had Lord Nufflele's authority to say that he accepted the White Paper on the controversy as a fair statement me Government's: point of view of what had passed between the Fan Ministry and himself and that he did. not propose (o make cany further statement, Although he was not able to cooperate in the Government's alr Lord Nuttield held himself to] Place his services at the disposal of the Government for ether important "Sir, 'Stanley' Balawin, the Prime Minister, promised Mr. C. R. Attlee, leader of the Labour Opposition, that the House would have an opportunity to debate the whole affair at its new, session.
In the House of Lords, Viscount Swinton, Secretary of State for Air, ade a similar statement to Sit Philip Sassoon's in reply to a question by Lord Snell, Chairman of the London County Council, He undertook to arrange an early, unlimited debate on the question of defence.
Lord Strabolgl who was the] ig Admiralty War Siaff in 1917, remark that he presumed that the Welse-Jey factory, which withdrew from, the Government's "shadow" scheme for the establishment of six factories fo manufacture aero engines, would be available if required, Lord Nuffield shook his head, but is understood to have said that the factory could be used for other types} of war engines, such as tanks, for the War Office,
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