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Show Air Branch is reeled, Says Famed Pilci for the same disaster that befell the ion subscribes immediately to a pro-Major pro-Major Al Williams in the September ,e existing weakness of the national es is by pointing directly to theact A " 17 EAR that America is headed Allies, unless the administrati gn'm of air power, is expressed by issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine. "The only way to explain th defense system of the United Stat If ' .-rrm I "' Major Al Williams that this administration is duplicating duplicat-ing each and every deadly error committed by the governments of France and England during the past five years," Williams charges. Navy leaders insist that air forces should really be air services assigned as messenger boys to the two older services, but as Europe has shown us, those 'messenger boys nae developed to the point where they can now destroy their one-time master." ' It is this fear of the Army and Navy, of having to assume a position posi-tion of secondary importance in we defense scheme of things, that has prompted them for (he past twenty years to resist the development ot a separate air force, he maintains. It is up to the government and only a strong government can do it says Williams, to step in and put the Army and Navy in their proper places. The chief handicap against the organizing of a three-departmental system 01 national ucwiac c present, in Williams' eyes, is the "dominating influence of a Warship-President." Warship-President." But Williams does not despair entirely, for it is his belief that a major invasion of the United States is conservatively five years away, and their is still time to prepare in the air. The most deadly error of the Allies, according to Williams, committed com-mitted notably by the British, was the failure to create an air force as a distinct and independent third ' arm of national defense with no 5 chiseling from the Army or Navy into its province. "Just as in the case of the British," Williams writes, "our Army and |