"Muddles & Delays"

The Queen Mary slid into Manhattan this week with a commission sent by His Majesty's Government to buy Canadian and U. S. bombing planes. In London up went yelps from Capital & Labor, for neither of these British groups can view with equanimity any other system than that they both should profit from Rearmament to the limit, insist that it be "All British." His Majesty's Government were flooded with complaints from employers and employes all heading up to blaming Air Secretary Viscount Swinton for the British aircraft industry's "muddles and delays."

In one type of British aircraft the Air Ministry were accused of having ordered over 6,000 modifications of the original plans they had "approved." Since well before last Christmas, driving, dictatorial Air Secretary Lord Swinton had been the target of assertions in the largest British papers that he must and would resign, and a suitable occasion would certainly be to offer Swinton as a scapegoat for "unpopular American purchases." The Viscount has been a fixture in Conservative cabinets off & on for 15 years, his friends were confident last week that the Prime Minister will not ease him out, and Swinton is stoutly defended by the leading journal of British sky-fighters, The Aeroplane. This frankly pro-German and most outspoken paper is alarmed lest pro-French influence cause Lord Swinton to be displaced by Winston Churchill who, according to The Aeroplane "would be far worse!"

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