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er mneee "i : an ” paswenger carrying was “not only possible, » but also practioa te Today, ‘Tam trying to assure our government and our people that while trang: ~_ eceanic bombing is possible, it is not practical, end that the damage. it. : are % oould do on wartine etandards would be ‘Blight. Ve he tees ee a, “fx seep 7 ay aot ws ae a re ~~ © 3M a 4 find the | same ‘people who scoffed at transatlantic air "Toutes : Loe 10 years ago, now telling me that if the British empire does not win this - 4 “@ c+ cy war, the United States of Anorica will be conquered by air invaders fron Biron. | "They say that the world's two greatest oceans are no barrier to bombing .. Planes, and that at any moment we may find trens-oceanis perachuse troops wR * raining 4 down on the streets of our na Jor citios, a - gms "our ow n president has talked about ir invasions ‘by way of Pees “Loscapped Greenland, and about others besed on the jungles of Central and >. .*: ., South America -- incidentally, at cruising sppeda that are far higher than * any racing Poane has yet attained. Well, 10 years ago, those of us who bee. “.\". .24eved in aviation set out to make this country “air minded.* We seem to have ..*, >. Succeeded, and now I suppose it is our job to get its fect eafely back onto.” '. .. the ground. Now that we have become "air minded,” our next + problem is te wt | woe learn how to operate aircraft to our best advantage, \ ae aon ee CUB But from what I say here, do not gain the “Supression ‘ that ” we ms aviation has reached ites ultimate development. It has still far to go both. of » \..: 4m commerce and in war. The bombing plane will become more destructive, the ” hae “pursuit plane more effective, and the commercial plane more efficient than tney 7. 3. @F6 today. “It is sven possible that the discovery of new sources of energy . ~« WALL permit us to build rocket planes in the future which will outperform the ‘:° mythical bombers of our present day politicians and interventionists. With ~~ wee a - + tmlimited energy available, one can conceive of speed limited only by the aon we . ,Seleration the human bédy oan withstand, In that case, our desoendants may Or _ some day acoslerate halfway across the ocean, and "decelerate™ tha rest of the us _. | Way acrosa. If new sources of energy are discovered, the power of explosives — “J: ., WAll also increase, And then, in some future generation, fifty, or a hundred, --""."" or a thousand years from now, the United States may ber as vulnerable to attack - ' pam Borane ae aw ae Be arom Pope as England ié todays 7 ce _ fa Once a bes vie re ee a : 7 . fot: 4 eh ot fond woe 74 ee = Ee Ms tae Me “ oe RE Yow, I am sure that many y interventionists will feel that since. a wo nay some day harness the atom and travel in rockets, we should go to war . a -. >, dmnediately to make the world safe for whatever system of government exists - ae cy. (fa that unknown and distant time. But I am among those non-interventionists Who - |: feel that we heve enough problems to solve in our om generation; and that if: :. ur grandchildren insist on splitting atoms and building rockets, it must be upon ‘-, their own responsibility. I believe that our generation will have accomplished — Ste duty if we pass on to cur children a free and independent American herie a tage that is not too greatly burdened with the debts of wer. And so, for the - - present et least, I am willing to pass the atom and the rocket plen over to the | - - - interventioniets, to hold in trust for ‘generations of the futures Sas oe bey es a In di soussing eir. power, we should start with ‘the realisation ee - ellos thet man's _ ponquest of the air will bring revolutionary onangee to the entire ae ~ ra 4, a gage ip ES eer ME ay ett 7 :