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"Situations like this make it very difficult for
the noutral notions.
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LEAK TRIBUNAL
on
Conduct of Inquiry
"Meticulosity! That's the word, gentlemen,
meticulosity!"
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"Stektly speaking you count as "temporary, Mle, and that's where we should start
to
THE CHINA MAIL, BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2007)
I ask myself
in astonishment
IS THE
GEORGE
CROSS ISLAND
FOR SALE?
There are strong rea- sons for asking it, after the especially revealing speech on Britain's new strategic policy made by Mr Dun- can Sandys, the Defence Minister, in Parliament.
MAGLE
SPAIN)
agoing cruisega jand Alttle more than a dozen amaller ships.
On the block
IT is clear that the defence
chiefs have decided that Ahe progressive loss of British prestige and power] In the Middle East hus) robbed Malta of almost mill strategic importance.
So the naval dockyard which employs 18,000 men mard is u vital factor in Malta's financial Bfe has boon thrown un
the chopping block us an almost certain candidate for the newly sharpened economy hatchet.
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This is a sud reward for Malta's 314,000 people who braved bombing and blockade for six years.
It would be
sorry scuttle for Britain becÇAURE Mr Mintoff has warned the Government that if it gives up the dockyard it gives upl Malta-for ever.
He is Inslating that the Government must provide some alternative umploy- ment for the workers who would otherwise be sucked. Hence the Acurry to And it someone willing to take
over.
Money.
CQUIRING
the
thely
equipped Malta dockyard for merchant ship repairs when foreign orders are being turned away because the British yards
full in pttractive pr position. Especially If
the
Government was willing almost to give it away-as seems likely
But because of the
costs, opernting
ย
transporti
merchant
ship repair yard in Malta could probably be made to pay only cheap labour were available.
Mr Mintoff is committed politically to a plan for reising the living standards of the hard-up Maltese people 10 -something like the level of thar!
Empire in which the dock- British. All the gns now nt yard question in a pivot. to the near-certainty that suc
in are
progress the Government is trying between the Government. to give up the greater part and Mr Dom Mintoff, the whole of Maltese Prime Minister. perhaps the
the big ORVAL base in who is in London. Malta anel virtually 14
clear out
ranean,
of the Mediter-
Consider these facts: -
So be is insisting that any bring the alternative joba must. dockyard workers
much money and possible more-- man the old ones.
For Ame.ica?
the
Vickers-Armstrongs
deal falls through will the Government offer to rent the
THE other night Mr. Sandy's stresse that Britain's future go-it-alone naval commitments will be base to the Americans for use by the U.S. Sixth Fleet BRITISH firm of East of Suez--in the areus which
DOW dominates the Vickers-Armstrongs has based Singapore. the Mediterranean? 1 am told that
] THE
hern
Admirnity
approached by The Persian Gulf, and Hong- this is possible.
to discover kom. whether it would terested in taking over the
The
the future of
WRS
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not
i sympathise with Mr Sandye well as with the Maltese people. The money which ho laas been allotted
defend to Britain and the Empire is being repeatedly slashed by the com- bined assault of the Chancellor
Mr Rising Prier.
The
unval dockyard at Malts called "British Mediter for conversion. to a repair exa Fleet" yard for merchant ships. mentioneal exempl inl 23 М Peter Thomeveroft, 12 TWO representatives of general Sambener that
the firm have visited the Britain would have to con- dockyard and prepared a re- tribute to Combined Naval port on it. The firm's chiefs Forers. have considered
ditions
under
the
Con-
which it This "Fleet,"
economy batchet fail somewher ignominious for
ond
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