The Royal Air Force, Air Power and British Foreign Policy, 1932-37

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1977, Pages 153-174

  Smith, Malcolm ^a  

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EID: 84977202445     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002200947701200107     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. M.E. Howard, The Continental Commitment (London 1972); S. Roskill, Hankey, Man of Secrets, III (London 1974); I. Colvin, The Chamberlain Cabinet (London 1970); and K. Middlemas, Diplomacy of Illusion (London 1972).
2. Memorandum by the CAS on the Air Power Requirement of the Empire, signed F.H. Sykes, 9 December 1918, reprinted in F.H. Sykes, From Many Angles (London 1942), 558-74.
3. Cmd. 467, 1919, 'Memorandum by the CAS; An Outline of the Scheme for the Permanent Organisation of the RAF', signed H.M. Trenchard, 25 November 1919, HofC Accounts and Papers, 11, 1919, vol. 23.
4. For example, Air Staff Note on the Standardization of Certain Operational Classes of Aircraft, Air Staff, October 1935, AIR 9/37.
5. Conclusions of a Meeting of the Cabinet, 20 June 1923, AIR 8/67.
6. W. Mitchell, Skyways (London 1930), passim.
7. For example, J.M. Spaight, Air Power in the Next War (London 1939).
8. L.E.O. Charlton, The Menace of the Clouds (London 1937), 14.
9. J.F.C. Fuller, Towards Armageddon (London 1937), Chapter X.
10. Sir C. Webster and N. Frankland, The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, IV (London 1961), Appendix I, 66.
11. It should be noted, however, that British air power theory was unique in denying the classical principle of the necessity of defeating the 'enemy air force in being.' See M.S. Smith 'The RAF and Counter-Force Strategy before the Second World War' in the Journal of the Royal United Service Institute, June 1976.
12. HofC Debs., 5 series, vol. 270, 10 November 1932, c. 632. See U. Bialer, Some Aspects of the Fear of Bombardment from the Air and the Making of British Defence & Foreign Policy, 1932-39, unpublished Ph.D., (London 1974) which deals with the diplomatic exchanges to secure air disarmament and air armament limitation during and after the Geneva Conference.
13. See K. Middlemas and J. Barnes, Baldwin (London 1969), 731-36.
14. DRC 12, Note, Sir Warren Fisher, 29 January 1934, CAB 16/109.
15. CID 1087-B, Treasury Comments on COS 1932 Review, 11 March 1932.
16. Memorandum by Sir R. Vansittart to DC(M)32, 2 June 1934, 2, AIR 8/169.
17. Memorandum by DCAS (Air Marshal Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt) to CAS (Ellington), 22 May 1934, AIR 9/23.
18. Memorandum on Air Defence Requirements, AS, 29 May 1934, AIR 9/69.
19. Memorandum by Air Ministry, The Expansion Programme, undated [June 1934], AIR 8/175.
20. M.E. Howard, The Continental Commitment (London 1972), 110.
21. S. Roskill, Hankey: Man of Secrets, III (London 1974), 119/120.
22. See A.J. Marder, From the Dardanelles to Oran (London 1974), chapter III.
23. Hankey to Fisher, 13 February 1936, AIR 8/207.
24. For the evolution of the defence rationing system in 1937, see K. Middlemas, Diplomacy of Illusion (London 1972), 118-28; see also P. Dennis, Decision by Default (London 1972), which refers in particular to the debate on the Army Field Force.
25. Aide-Mémoire, Sir T. Inskip, 9 December 1937, AIR 8/226.
26. Reply to Aide-Mémoire of Sir T. Inskip, 11 December 1937, AIR 8/226.
27. Item from the Cones, of a Cabinet Meeting, 22 December 1937, 2, AIR 8/226.
28. Ludlow-Hewitt to Air Ministry, 25 July 1939, AIR 14/39.