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good and which are the bad, we are hound, 

 in the interests of the travelhng pubhc and 

 the sailors, to attack, the whole system indis- 

 criminately of personality or individuals. 

 The outburst of vituperation against Senator 

 Smith, in as far as it was not inspired 

 otherwise, came from the imconsciously 

 indignant feeling that some other country 

 was usurping our right to decide what 

 must be done in shipping matters. But 

 indignation and strong words will not 

 stop America and Germany from wrest- 

 ing the lead from us unless we make a 

 strong effort for efficiency, unless we hang 

 those who must hang for past misdeeds, and 

 start out, without any delay, on a sound 

 basis. If the Board of Trade is unable to 

 do what is needed, let us put matters under 

 the Admiralty, or else create a special de- 

 partment. The less open and public we 

 make the control, the more easy it is for 

 that control to be rendered inefficient. To- 

 day we find that the shipowners control the 

 situation, caring nothing for the Govern- 

 ment or for the public, less still for those 

 who work their siiips. All those who are 

 ])atriotically proud of their country and 

 jealous of its honour. should know nothing 

 of rest until we have regained, not necessarily 

 the lead, but the right to lead. And all 

 such right must be founded upon giving to 

 everyone who goes to sea in a British ship, 

 whetlier passenger or member of the crew, 

 the maximum chance for life. 



It is pleasant to turn from 

 Mr. Winston '''is subject to that of the 

 Churchill's Success, success which Mr. Win- 

 ston Churchill has made 

 at the Admiralty. Belonging really to no 

 political party, he is gifted with imagination, 

 with that restless energy necessary for those 

 who have to do with the untirine sea, and 

 he is wakiiis: s;(i(iil. I'lediied to tin- standard 



By />crtii!SSlon of the f>r?p*ictoi-s of *' Punch '^\ 



Dogg'd. 



Winston: " .W//V biscuit, I think." 



of peace, the standard of two keels to one 

 of any other com])eting Power, we do not 

 have to stop and wonder at every moment 

 whether things are well with naval policy or 

 not. We admit that there are many in the 

 present Government who look askance upon 

 the First Lord, antl who are beginning to 

 murmur. Mr. Churchill does not need to 

 hear such nuirmurs as long as he has the 

 mass of public opinion behind him. And 

 that he has to-day to a surprising degree. 

 We do not say that he does not make 

 mistakes, many of them, but the great point 

 is that he has seized upon the vital necessity 

 of the situation. This is concentration 

 where the danger is, and adequate patrol 

 over the whole ol the world. That is a 



