47. Captain BALFOURasked the Prime Minister if he is satisfied that the necessity of securing for the peoples of the world immunity from air attacks can be achieved by adherence to the Government's proposals as laid down in the White Paper of November last without retarding the full commercial development of Imperial civil aviation?
§ Mr. BALDWINMy hon. and gallant Friend will remember that what His Majesty's Government proposed on 17th November was a thorough examination of the practicability of an effective international control of civil aviation. As made clear by my Noble Friend the Secretary of State for Air, in his speech at Geneva on the 20th February last, international control must not prevent or hamper the fullest development of aviation in every country for civil and commercial purposes, nor must it restrict freedom in the realm of experiment and research.