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Stanley Baldwin


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I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.

British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin

On learning that Germany had secretly built an air force in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, 1935. Quoted in the 2004 book Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age.

The speed of air attack, compared with the attack of an army, is as the speed of a motor car to that of a four-in-hand and in the next wae you will find that any town that is within reach of an aerodrome can be bombed within the first five minutes of war from the air, to an extent which was inconceivable in the last war … I think it is well also for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin

House of Commons speech, 10 November 1932.

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defence of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin

House of Commons speech, 30 July 1934. .


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