General Goring has declared that Germany must possess air power in ratio to the forces maintained by her frontier neighbours. What he outlined was 40 per cent. of the combined aeroplane strength of France, Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Why' he should fix his ratio on his frontier powers alone as though aeroplanes were for local or fixed defen-is not mentioned but as a basis the claim would give Germany 1,000 first line machines. If he has also in mind reserve machines the figure {s hearer 2,000. Assuming that he carles out his programme the main air strengths on present numbers would approximately be as follows:—
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