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permanence. Those who are desirous of 

 assisting in the efficiency of the Navy should 

 continue to urge the making permanent, 

 independent of Party and Cabinet, of the 

 man responsible for the welflire of the 

 Empire. The verv fact that the Cabinets 

 have lost their former resjject makes it all 

 the more necessary not to involve the 

 Navy in this lack of prestige, national and 

 Parliamentary. 



At the moment there are 



Mr. Winston tvvo great oppottimitics be- 



ChurchiUs Chance. foreMr.WinstonChurcliill. 



One is the taking of a 

 strong line on the Mediterranean ques- 

 tion. This we believe he is quite anxious 

 to do, and will do as soon as public opinion 

 shall have given him the necessary force to 

 overcome the opinions of some of his 

 colleagues. The second chance is more 

 spectacular in that it does not merely 

 perpetuate British naval and world prestige, 

 but makes new international history. Last 

 month we wrote of this country's mission as 

 " policeman of peace " ; now we would call 

 attention to the fact that in very bad 

 districts policemen go in pairs, not singly. 

 And the world to-day is, from a peace 

 point of view, fit to rank with the worst 

 striker-ridden slum of East London. And 

 so we must go armed with another police- 

 man, to maintain order. That other police- 

 man is the United States, the great English- 

 speaking nation across the Atlantic, whose 

 northern border runs with the southern 

 limit of one of the Empire's new and 

 vigorous overseas Dominions. We would 

 at once say tliat we do not dream of an 

 alliance. We are against alliances on 

 paper, preferring alliances of mutual iiUerest 

 — indeed, tliev are the only ones which 

 have any worth. The two policemen 

 patrolling a shun 



do not need to go 



through any legal form of partnership 

 before they set out to keeji the peace; they 

 go together to safeguard each other and 

 more efficiently to keej) the peace. What 

 task could be more congenial to one born 

 of American and English parents than to 

 bring about a nearer realisation of a union, 

 of the good results of which he himself is 

 so striking a recommendation r 



^ _, How is this most desirable 



S?nd 



a British Fleet ot world events to be 

 to secured and all the nations 



New York. adequately apprised of the 

 fact that the two English-speaking nations 

 are bound by mutual interests — the Union 

 Jack and the Stars and Stripes back to 

 back against war and for the maintenance 

 of peace and order r A sign, an unmistak- 

 able portent is needed. The first step must 

 be no undecided or wavering one. What 

 more significant first step could be devised 

 than for Mr. W^inston Churchill to send a 

 Dreadnought fieet to New York in all the 

 pomp and panoply of armed force? The 

 Germans have sent Dreadnoughts to New 

 York ; let us send super-Dreadnoughts, 

 and in the proportion of two keels to 

 one. And with this dread but friendly 

 array, powerful for war but still more 

 powerful for peace, let the King send the 

 Prince of Wales. What a worthy succes- 

 sion to the peace mission of the first holder 

 of the title — to bring confessed peace and 

 friendship to the two English-speaking 

 peoples I For all that is needed is emphasis 

 to the world of community of interest, of 

 the existence of a real tie of friendship, 

 that will suffice to keep the peace of the 

 world. I'rom Carnarvon to New York— 

 from triendly Wales to IVieiidly America — is 

 a magnificent |)rogress in achievenunt, paral- 

 leling the growth of England of Edward I. 

 to the British Empire of King George. No 



