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stated that after several years of study of the subject, he has become con-vinced that the ultimate solution of our air defense problem is a concen-tration of the responsibility therefor on one head. As a first step forward accomplishing this he had recommended that the Air Corps be sepa-rate from the War Department but under Secretary of War.

The best example to-day of a separate Air Force is the Royal Air Force of Great Britain. This organization has proved itself so ef-ficient that in spite of all efforts to split it up, it continues to grow stronger. In 1923 a very determined effort was made to do away with the separate Air Force, and the remarks made by Lord Gorrell on the subject before the House of Lords, in July of that year, are interesting in this connection. He stated:

"It is perfectly true that the basis of inquiry has shifted, Originally it was a plain demand for the splitting up again of the Air Force. How it takes the form of the demand by the Navy for the Naval Air Wing. I had occasion, when speaking last year on this subject, to point out that the Navy have complete operational control of all air units serving with them, and though it sounds extremely spacious that the Navy should have their own Air Wing, I want, if the Government is prepared to answer the questions I am directing at them on this subject, to point out that there is not stopping place. We have heard a great deal of naval air and military air, and other absurdities of that kind in this discussion. There is one air just the same

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