AIR ASCENDANCY
THE PRESENT PHASE
WHY GERMANS CANNOT WIN
LONDON, October 31
A warning that if the Germans do not come to us we will go to them was delivered by Lord Croft, Under-Secre-tary for War and Vice-President of the Army Council, today. He was addressing units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and said: "Your presence here along with soldiers of Australia, New Zealand, and Newfoundland provides many thousands of weighty reaspns why a German victory is not possible.
"The present phase of the war is largely the struggle for air ascendancy. If our Air Force continue to hold the enemy the air ascendancy will be won when the river of supply of pilots from the great Empire camp in Canada turns into a flood. Germany cannot win the war unless she lands in this island and makes us hold up our hands. No terror, no murdering of civilians and the destruction of churches and hospitals will ever drive our people to surrender."
Airmen trained under the Empire air training scheme have arrived in England.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 107, 1 November 1940, Page 7
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175AIR ASCENDANCY Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 107, 1 November 1940, Page 7
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