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          M. Daladier said that he thought aviation was the crux of the problem.  He said that he 
 
thought it was entirely possible, as he himself had indicated in Geneva on earlier occasions, for an 
 
aviation force composed of units from the various European Powers to be set up, under some 
 
form of international authority, as a police power in Europe to insure the maintenance of peace, 
 
and the compliance by the various Powers with the commitments into which they might enter. He 
 
said he was confident that such a police force, if properly administered, would be sufficient to 
 
prevent any nation in Europe from undertaking aggressive action. He said that he could not 
 
believe that, with modern aviation being what it was, the threat which the utilization of such a 
 
police force would involve would not be sufficient to have prevented those European Powers 
 
which had pursued a policy of aggression in recent years from carrying out such acts of
 
aggression, had such a police force existed.
 
          He said that he further believed that a very clear distinction could be made, as President 
 
Roosevelt had indicated, between offensive and defensive categories in armaments. He said that 
 
he believed that security could be obtained by the destruction of all offensive types of armaments 
 
and the retention by the individual nations of only those categories of armaments which were 
 
clearly defensive in nature.
 
          We discussed the nature of the authority which might be set up under international 
 
agreement and, while it did not seem to me that he had reached any precise or detailed views with 
 
regard thereto, he made it very clear to me that