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Show AIRPLANE RIVALRY SUPPLANTS SEA -RACE ENGLAND AND FRANCE OPENLY HOSTILE By -WILLIAM PHlLLrP StUMt. Prance and England continue to arm, this time against each other there le no more alarming symp-; torn In Europe than the ever widening widen-ing breach between England and " ranee. London and Parle no longer long-er attempt te conceal their con tl let of Interests, while press end public. pub-lic. In both countries, are openly hostile. Tw disquieting questions ara being be-ing discussed la th chnncellortee of Eur pa. one la, will "Prance and England eae day hav to fight It rut? Tb other la, will aa Anglo-Ut-r man understanding bo rounded on ilia wrevk of Ism It rancO-fc.ug.iet. entente corOlale? h..js A. ti. Oardiner, England's brut known llbe-ral euitor: "The rnorn.oua supremacy of ttte French Sir servic haa created profound concern, and a demand tnat the l country be in a poaiuon to afiia lierif is too tops' to b resisted. " In 1V1I Lord lflrkenheed ares a member of the I-Joyd uwnt cab-lnut. cab-lnut. a comniiltee of whih laid uuun the itioin i hat In view of tr.t g-i)-nl condnkuna of Kurops, there could be no miM ar for lea years, AIR St IHmACY. , While 1 was tn Loiidnn, Vlrken-I Vlrken-I t-a-i mid a speech in the house of Iot i. . in a h b be a d ; "NX e can no more be eentwnt In le next three to five years it n tr-e present Inferiority In tne air l. in we coutj hare been content a naval inferiority In the ) ear pre'Cdirg tb out breaK of war." for-1979 ax'oira aa longer holds f ood. It Is possible a still larger air orce might be raised. Meanwhile "Le Tmps, organ ol th - Krench government, openty charges Britain with harbortng the ambition to dominate Europe st the expense of Pre nee and to the benetit Of Germany. "Th whole British reparation plan." says L Temps, "la little mor than a scheme to establish British hegemony Indefinitely, After Aft-er four years of complete moratorium morator-ium th ejueatlon of wresting pay-n.ants pay-n.ants from Germany wouie arise It would b a dangerous crista It would depend upon Great Britain whether this degenerated Into a conflict asd whether Germany, doiy restored, aheuld he vlctorloua yggvcn view. 'when such a plan Is advanced by the British, the paper asks, trow can Prance believe other than that Brit. Ita diplomacy, the Bntisa aamirai-tr aamirai-tr aad tha British general ataff know all along the probable effects of such a situation? Th British charge France with having "deal roved the balance or Eowcr 1 Europe, thus endangering n gland, while France aaya Britain has destroyed "the ties formed during dur-ing the war." adding "t be allied nations na-tions on the continent can no longer long-er count on anything save their own force.- x 1 The situation between Prates and England today la much too murh like that between England and Germany Ger-many pefor the war for comfort. French and British can no more continue to tread oa each ether a to onwha continent than could P-ntieh. and Germans without a ( Ignt sooner or later. He would make any sacrifice, he said, to matnLaln frlei.lahlp wit b France, but tl was not posaibl for Hrlialn to he satisfied with an air fiet le than tha: or any othr jrewer. The aecurlty formerly provided pro-vided by the nav, he concluded, ao w dependa upon the air forcea. i'SFpue the axiom laid down Is lUt that ther would be no ma)or war in F u r u p within ten years from that time, the lsrltiah air force, in 1J2 lure years later was strengthened by the addition of fifteen fif-teen regular and five aux-liary air squadrons to be added by l2s at a rest of some ie'yeo. franco, remember, ia Kngland a only poeeinte rival in th air, tb nation ia nerd !reesd for money anal taxation already atatrgering The puke of Sutherland, an Jer-secretary Jer-secretary for afr, rapping to the former chancellor. Lord Birkenhead, declared that If the present cabinet cab-inet decide tb no-major-war-en- |