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At all events, all the maritime spite this, és powers are hard at it building the position, G new type of fast battleships. Ger- with negotia
France are many and
neck and Treaty of Ju
THE naval. position in Europe its country from invasion, or escort dominating
merits careful watching. Bri- some special convoy, but it cannot negotiations tain's supremacy at sea få generally guard every convoy, it cannot bring that it was s assumed as the one stable factor in its enemy to battle, and its power a number of the balance of power, but to-day, to safeguard its commerce is seri- the parts h owing to a remarkable set-up in the ously reduced.
though the✅ factor faces a new test. The situa speed of modern battleships, that
lowed it no tion resembles that which develop ed when the first all-heavy-gunned battleship, the Dreadnought, made
neck, each hoping to have Germany - m of the century and rendered all her three completed by the end of 1939 Navy to 85 predecessors obsolete.
and a fourth by the end of 1940. Submarine Britain is making supreme efforts Britain, despite its great superiority ly. Here Gerz to create a new battle fleet in the of the older types, is buildin
to build shortest possible time, and thanks new battleships, and will pleably basis with B to these efforts will, it seems, main- announce three more this dertook in th tain its lead. Even so, orthodox sea spring. It already possesses the 30- cumstances r supremacy, by which I mean the knot Hood, the equal of anything cent of the: possession of the most powerful afloat, and should regain its position previously n battle fleet, may be challenged of uncontested superiority by 1943, discussing th either by aircraft or submarines. In with 10 of the new ships as against Herr Adolf England, the aircraft challenge is Germany's aix, France's eix, and German viewi not regarded as serious, but the Italy's four.
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know, from experience of ferent history. In 1935 Germany, nor the neces the World War, how gravely Bri- growing restive over the armament to embark on tain's essential communications may limitations of Versailles, and the The German ( be threatened by a submarine war Disarmament Conference having of themselve against merchant vessels.
broken down, proposed that the and vital impo Germany's recent announcement German Navy should in future the justificati of its intention to build sub- base itself on the British on a pro- protection for marines up to tonnage equality with portional basis. Great Britain, feel- on the sea, p Britain creates a new situation ing that Germany could not forever conversely is which Britain will have hard work be bound down to unilateral dis- that is necessg to remedy. United States officials armament, or, perhaps, knowing of her contine also will be carefully watching Ger- that Germany would rearm in any freedom." many's new submarine programmes, case, grasped this opportunity of By this acti for, of all war vessels. the submar- satisfying reasonable German as- alised his inter ine can operate further from her pirations while retaining its own tion, "to preve base and remain longest at sea. Should Germany build cruiser-sub- marines, this will automatically ex- tend the potential war area to the Atlantic coastline of America and even, possibly, to the Pacific.
The battleship position can be traced to 1931-33, when Germany, though still within the limitations of the Versailles Treaty, built the three fast pocket battleships of the Deutschland class. These, with their great radius of action, be-.. came at once a threat to any poten- tial enemy's commerce. France, feeling that they endangered its safety, parried with the two swift battleships of her Dunkerque class, which, with their powerful arma- ment and speed of 81 knots, could easily dominate the Deutschlands. This set the fashion in
new fast battleships.
From that time onward no gov. ernment has been so rash as to build a battleship with a speed of less than 80 knots. For what can a fleet of 20-knot battleships do against even a small squadron of 30-knotters which can go where it will, attack convoys, and always escape if brought to action by a superior force? True, it can guard
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