BRITISH POLICY IN THE AIR

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 43, 14 November 1940, Page 8

BRITISH POLICY IN THE AIR

I'rom the nature of the questions addressed to the Secietary lot Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair) by an interviewer representing the London DnzVv Express it would seem there is feeling in the United Kingdom in -favour of R.A.F. attacks against the leading personnet, rather than merely the fabric, of the Nazi war 'machine. On one popular point Sir Archibald was specific. “Hitler,” he said, "is a military objective. The intention of the R.A.l'. is io hit • ■ • as hard as they can. The commanders and staffs of these [enemy | iorces do nut enjoy immunity. . . In elaborating his reply, bowevei, tlie \ir Secretary indicated that judgment of opportunity had best be left to the Imperial Air Staff. "We are working carefully and scientifically on a plan for attacks against Germany, he said. I hi> re-statement of policy is timely. At the beginning of the campaign of aerial attrition it was announced that the R.A.F. had no intention of emulating the Luftwaffe’s wasteful, haphazard frightfulness—that, instead, bombs would be dropped when and where the damage to German militarism would be greatest. The desire for spectacular reprisal is understandable, but the expert fighter knows that the spectacular stroke is not necessarily the shrewdest. British bombeis ate ranging an exceptionally wide compass and finding vital targets. There may come a moment when it is suitable to strike at Nazi personnel/ If so, no doubt the blow will be delivered.