Defence Requirements Sub-Committee

Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933—1939 (London Frank Cass, 2002), pp. 123—5, 136—7, 145—6 Keith Neilson, The Defence Requirements Sub-Committee , English Historical Review, 118 (2003), 651—84. 

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Interim report by Ministerial Sub-committee on Air Parity , DCM (32) 41, 8 May 1935, CAB 27/518 Ministerial Committee on Defence Requirements minutes, 10 May... 

Force, but only three additional squadrons instead of ten for the Far East, and with FAA requirements to be met by making Home and FAA squadrons interchangeable. The source of these ideas was almost certainly Trenchard, who was advising the Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, Fisher, at the time. A Cabinet sub-committee on the allocation of air forces in July 1934 agreed with the Admiralty that FAA squadrons had to be kept separate, but otherwise accepted Chamberlain s view that the RAF should be concentrated in the United Kingdom, recommending thirty-three additional squadrons for the Home Defence Force, four for the Far East, and four-and-a-half for the FAA. ... 

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