Includes committee minutes of statements made by General [Jan] Smuts [South African Representative to the Imperial War Cabinet]; [WSC] Minister of Munitions; [Sir David Henderson] Director General of Military Aeronautics; the Master General of the Ordnance; Major General [Edward] Ashmore; and [1st Lord Cowdray, earlier Weetman Pearson] President of the Air Board. Issues discussed included equipment for home defence and offensive bombing operations.Also includes extracts from War Cabinet minutes on air raids and the defence of London.