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THE prominence which the question of air raids and air defence is receiving affords a timely reminder both of the extent to which aviation is rather an international than a national problem, and of the way in which this new power of flight has become rather a menace than an aid to civilisation. A memorandum, and also one of the six projected handbooks dealing with air raid precautions, have recently been issued by the Air Raid Precautions Department of the Home Office j\ In a general preface to the handbook it is explained that measures for safeguarding the civil population against the effects of air attack have become a necessary part of the defensive organisation of any country which is open to air attack, and that the need for them does not arise from any belief that war is imminent. The risk of attack from the air, however remote it may be, is a risk which cannot be ignored, and preparations to minimise the consequences of such attack cannot be improvised on the spur of the moment, but must be made, if they are to be effective, in time of peace.
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International Control of Aviation. Nature 136, 489–491 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136489a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136489a0