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"Situations like this make it very difficult for

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Perlommary Murting

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

XO-

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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