Berlin, Mar. 2.
Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Minister of Aviation, Prussian Premier and Director of the Four-Year Plan, gave details of the early handicaps of the German Air Force in an address yesterday before representatives gf Germany's armed forces. The occasion was the third anniversary of the official founding of the Air Force.
The Minister of Aviation declared that the early work of the Air Force had to be done secretly until the advent of the Anglo-French air disarmament proposal which Germany had been prepared to accept on condition that a certain minimum was guaranteed.
"When the negotiations failed, Germany was free to create an air arm quickly and openly.
"The Germar Air Force," he said, "will be frightful when the command comes. Then we shall become the terror of our enemies."
Field Marshal Goering called particularly upon the workers of aeroplane factories, who, he said, were "working overtime upon overtime."
In conclusion, the Minister stated:
"If we Germans, as human beings, are passionately devoted to peace, we, as soldiers of the youngest arm, are ready at all times to prove that the defiance of all the enemies of the Air Force is invincible."
Field Marshal Goering also address-the Academy of Aviation last night when he announced that five big research institutions for aviation had been established, or improved, in Germany in the past five years.
The staffs of these institutions, he added, had been increased tenfold during the same period.—Reuter.
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