§ Mr. THURTLEasked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether there is a Regulation of the Ministry which provides that all candidates for the Royal Air Force must, in addition to being British subjects, be of pure European descent; and, if so, will he give the reason why the condition of pure European descent is insisted upon?
§ Mr. LEACHThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The answer to the second part is that the Royal Air Force is a British service and that the mixture of European and non-European subjects in the same fighting service raises grave practical difficulties.