GERMAN AVIATION

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 17 June 1933, Page 11

GERMAN AVIATION

. Importance for Security

TpOLLOWING his appointment as Reich Commissioner for Aviation and the creation for the first time of what is tantamount to a German Air Ministry, Captain Goring stated that the new Cabinet" had decided to give German aviation the extended financial basis due to its importance for the national security. He wished that peace might prosper, but was compelled, he said, to point out that the other nations had not vet, as they had promised, themselves done what they had demanded of German}'. The disarmament of the other Powers must lie demanded. But the main point' was not armament or disarmament, but the security of. the German people, which must come before everything else. Only when the other countries had, like Italy, recognised the German claim to equality could the Germans -again open their factories and laboratories. Captain -Goring added that one of file most important tasks was the promotion of sporting flying and thereby the return of all experienced pilots to practical aviation. Commenting on this pronouncement, the Nationalist “Deutsche Tageszeitung’ ’ explained that it means ‘“either that all the air Powers, in accordance with, the German and British demands at the Disarmament Conference, disarm completely, that is to say, destroy all their military aircraft and dissolve all their military air organisations, or that Germany, immediately after the earliest decision possible to obtain at Geneva, proceeds with the creation of a military air force of her own.”