GREAT BRITAIN: Defenders On Spots

Viscount Swinton, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Air, drew recently from Britain's leading aeronautic journal, The Aeroplane, this information:

"Probably Lord Swinton is the only person in British Aviation who does not know that he misses a great deal of knowledge by his lack of tact in dealing with people, from his own subordinates to the most important."

This came just before the Christmas Holiday, and last week The Aeroplane followed through with an attack which London correspondents slapped onto the cables as Britain's story of the week. From Viscount Swinton...

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