§ 38. Miss WILKINSONasked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether, now he has had time to consider the matter, he will give instructions that scenes purporting to represent the bombing of coloured peoples will form no part of any future Royal Air Force pageant?
§ Sir P. SASSOONFor the reasons indicated in the answer which I gave to the hon. Member's question last week, my Noble Friend does not consider that any such instructions are required.
§ Miss WILKINSONDoes the right hon. Gentleman think that in the present state of feeling, and particularly in view of 394 the position as regards Italy and Abyssinia, it is really tactful to give these demonstrations of the bombing of native peoples?
§ Sir P. SASSOONThat does not arise out of the programme of the display. The people were not coloured and as far as I could see they were dressed in ordinary white overalls and the loud speaker informed us that they came from "The Valley of the Moon." I do not think the presentation of an imaginary picture of that kind, would be misunderstood here or in any country.
§ Miss WILKINSONIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that one of the Italian operations in the neighbourhood of Ganda took place in the Valley of the Moon and that therefore, the selection of that title was, again, not very tactful?