GREAT BRITAIN: 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...

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