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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, NOVEMBER 8, 1940-
Britain
And
IT took the threat of a world and hypocritically, altruistic virtues
sie never possessed.
the imminent menace of the tide of Nazism to make a world As Mr. Michael Lewis, Professor of people réalise that Britain, in of History at the Royal Naval her role of Mistress of the Seas, College, Greenwich, points out in was in reality the champion of the "British Ships and Eritish Sea- Freedom of the Seas: that the men" (published for the British oceans she had won with her great Council by Longmans Green & Navy, were, by those very con- Co., London), few continentals quests, thrown open for the use of have any first hand knowledge of all.
the ways of British ships on the waters.
the
The British warship, indeed, has become the counterpart of British policeman, and every habi- tual user of the sea, whatever his nationality, recognised this truth long ago. No seafarer was afraid of a British ship of war, provided that his conscience told hum he was bound on his lawful occasions. On the contrary, he felt nothing but security when it was by, and recognised it for the good tempered law enforcement officer that it was, and is.
Let them he advises,
seek out from among their own people seafarers whom they can trust, and obtain their indepen- dent testimony, ever
Let them say whether they have ever known a British warship that wa's fussy, petty minded, hectoring or deliberately unjust; that was not on the contrary, good tem- pered, tactful, and strictly im- partial.
Great Britain's role as Mistress of the Seas, and her extreme inter- est in the preservation of the free- dom of the great ocean highways to all who would pass along them in the way of peace, has been dis- torted and maligned by many on the Continent.
But why should Britain také upon herself the troublesome and expensive role of policing the seas? People who are not British might reasonably, as Mr. Lewis suggests, object to being asked to believe that Britain is altogether altruistic in this important” mal- ter, and that she takes up a bur- densome and exacting duty just for the love of her fellow men- even though less
such claims would be in part truth.
But:
of
The Nazis accused her tyranny and repression, of using her naval arm to encircle powerful nations, and of parading,
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Britain, whose people have for long been free them- selves, does believe in Freedom, in itself, in all forms, and in all places-in social liberty, in politi- cal self determination, and in economic freedom
ence of their own to show that
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