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British Mediterranean fleet must be brought endeavour to break, an entente more hghtly 

 to a strength sufficient to enaiile us to be from tearing up an alliance. It is a serious 

 the deciding factor, and to guarantee that, matter, to be discussed from all sides. 

 as heretofore, we have the right to speak, for To make an alliance is to give to the 

 peace in these waters. It is well also to people at large the idea that success or 

 remember that we who believe in the possi- failure does not depend upon their effort 

 bility of a new Turkey may weh have to help alone, and that is fatal to national strength 

 in her regeneration and shield her from the and development. Alliance with France 

 danger menace— and only with our fleet we have in fact ; to have it also in name 

 can we do this task most vital to us as would, we are afraid, mean apathy on the 

 the greatest Mohammedan 

 Empire. Let Mr. Churchill 

 insist on an immediate pro- 

 gramme for the strengthen- 

 ing of our fleet in the Medi- 

 terranean, and he will have 

 again earned the praise of 

 the nation, which is so much 

 more worth while than the 

 fleeting approval or con- 

 demnation of a party or a 

 party leader. With a supreme 

 force in the North Sea, a 

 deciding fleet in the Mediter- 

 ranean, and an Empire patrol 

 in which the four Dominion 

 nations join with us to secure 

 all parts ofthe Empire, peace 

 is assured for years to come, 

 and tlie age of peril of war 

 will have approached nior 

 nearly to its end. 



There are 



Entente 



or 

 Alliance ? 



tliose who 

 advocate the 

 transforma- 

 enlenlc with 

 PVance into an alliance. AN e 

 do not hold witii paper 



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tion of the 



treaties, and we imagine that 

 the only advantage of such a 

 change would be to dissuade 

 any Power which might A Submarine beneath the water, as it is revealed to the airman flying above 



