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- … which was inspired by my knowledge that New Zealand were doing nothing about their Coast Defences on the plea of possible air developments, that H.M.G. were doing nothing about home and colonial port defence on the plea of economy, and that the … advice that the C.I.D. had given us. The question as to where the truth lies as between the contentions of the Air Ministry on the one hand and the Admiralty and War Office on the other, regarding the defence of ports, has created a … Ports. It creates considerable feeling at all meetings at which it is discussed and it has been the rock on which the Air Ministry and Admiralty have split on many occasions. It is essentially a question as between the Admiralty and the Air …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-17/88
- … charitable purposes. 1) None. 2) None 3) None 4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section. 9. TOURISM AND TRAVEL-RELATED SERVICES A. Hotels and other lodging services (CPC 641- 643) 1) None 2) None 3) None. 4) Unbound except as … in Horizontal commitment/Head Note to this schedule. 4) Unbound except as indicated in the horizontal section. Air Transport Services and Airport Services The commitments below are subject to the terms and conditions of the GATS Annex on Air Transport Services Aircraft repair and maintenance services , i.e., activities when undertaken on an aircraft or a part …https://dfat.gov.au/trade/agreements/in-force/australia-india-ecta/australia-india-ecta-official-text/annex-8e-schedules-specific-commitments-schedule-india
- … statement begins) The outstanding military lesson of this operation was the continuous calculated application of air power, inherent in the potentialities of every component of the Air Forces, employed in the most intimate tactical and logistical union with ground troops. The effect of this modern instrumentality was sharply accentuated by the geographical limitations of this theatre. For months on end, air transport with constant fighter coverage moved complete infantry regiments and artillery battalions across the almost …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-06/105-curtin-to-dixon
- … the Aviation Conference as they should have. While a full report of the conference and all relevant documents was posted air mail on the 20th inst. [3], it is desirable I should amplify my previous telegrams. The following extracts from my notes … an international plane will be undermined. For these reasons, and in particular because of the close relationship between air transport policy and any future world system of security, the Commonwealth Government attach the greatest importance to … require modification in the light of methods adopted for post-war security. Whatever methods may be adopted the civil air strength and potential for the production of aircraft by individual nations will be of supreme importance. Suggest …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-06/316-bruce-to-curtin
- … attack is the Navy, but the Navy cannot operate in narrow seas without serious loss unless adequately protected by air. The air is therefore the vital point. 3. As regards the air, Germany has a considerable numerical superiority. This is provisionally estimated at approximately 2 1/2 to 1 as …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-03/292-lord-caldecote-uk-secretary-of-state-for-dominion-affairs-to-sir-geoffrey-whiskard-uk-high-commissioner-in-australia
- … [1] and thank you for your expression of warm appreciation of our efforts to provide aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force. I am glad to learn that the allotment of aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force for 1943, with the exception of heavy bombers, is satisfactory to you both as to numbers and types of aircraft. To give the Royal Australian Air Force greater striking power, heavy bombers are needed, and I can understand your disappointment in not securing an …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-06/251-dixon-to-evatt
- … in Portuguese Timor by other foreign interests. It is felt that objective will be furthered by establishment of air service between Australia and Timor which will from the point of view of Portugal assist greatly in development of this … development desires to submit a proposal to the Portuguese Government for the establishment of a weekly land- plane air service from Darwin to Dilli subject to a favourable reception by the Portuguese Government of the proposal and to a subsequent settlement of satisfactory arrangements with an Australian air service. If the view of the Portuguese Government is favourable it is assumed that the Portuguese Government will accord …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-02/71-commonwealth-government-to-sir-thomas-inskip-uk-secretary-of-state-for-dominion-affairs
- … New York and Batavia. [2] 1 Accompanied by his wife and two secretaries, Evatt left Sydney on 28 February, travelling by air to London via New Delhi. Arriving in London on 4 March, Evatt consulted with UK Ministers and officials, and led the … the President of the French Republic the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. On 2 April, he travelled from London by air to New York to preside over the second part of the third session of the UN General Assembly from 5 April to 18 May. He returned to London by air, arriving on 20 May and flew from thence to Berlin, where he inspected the airlift, and from Berlin by special Royal Air …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-15/257-burton-to-evatt-1
- … Delay involved in this manoeuvre renders attack on the Western Front unlikely before the winter but intensive air offensive would be substituted. BRUCE 1 Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor. 2 General Hermann Goring, German Minister for Air and Commander- in-Chief of German Air Force. [AA:A981, GERMANY 83B, iii] Last Updated: 11 September 2013 … Cablegram 499 LONDON, 26 September 1939, 5.59 p.m. …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-02/247-mr-sm-bruce-high-commissioner-in-london-to-mr-rg-menzies-prime-minister
- … that Sir Hugh Trenchard [8] is to retire in a year or eighteen months' time. His successor will probably be from amongst Air Marshal Sir John Salmond [9], Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward L. Ellington [10], Air Vice-Marshal Sir P. W. Game [11], and Air Vice-Marshal Sir W. Geoffrey H. Salmond [12], in that order of probability. …https://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/historical-documents/Pages/volume-17/85