Concentration in highest British circles on the menace of an unexpected air attack, for example from the Nazis' new bombing base only 320 miles from Buckingham Palace (see map), brought orders from His Majesty's Government last week that the peacetime organization of the Royal Air Force must now "conform as closely as possible with the organization visualized for war." Effect of this is that, in case of emergency, operations will at once be directed not by civilian officials in Whitehall but by four British air marshals, charged respectively with bombers, fighters, coast-defense planes...
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