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MEANING OF SEA POWER

Valuable Series Of Broadcasts

̈(BY SIR HERBERT RUSSELL)

The B.D.C. merits a word of congratulation upon the idea of broadcasting a series of talks, by men eminently qualified to deliver them, upon the subject of "Ses Power." The Important propagandist value which these hold is manifestly not the pri

look upon.

pro- mary purpose. So much the better People paganda as a form of education and are not disposed to welcome It in the course of a, programme to which they turn primarily for entertainment,

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that it seems to take for granted disclaim having anything new to tell their listeners. Yet there has. that what it stands for must rule been a remarkable' degree of out what it opposes.

Nobody will deny that air power freshness in the retelling of the old story. Moreover, we have had Is a very formidable menace to sea points of view representing con- power. But does this rule out sea clusions based upon long thought power? I cannot help recalling the

mind at by professional

the story of a newly-elected Irish fellow highest possible competence. The Mayor result, I hope, will have been to in-

townsmen, he expressed his thanks duce thought and to clarify for the honour done him and thought upon the most vital sub-modestly deprecated his worthi- ness. "But" said he "I have one ject in the whole gambit of our national existence.

`great qualification. I know what is Popular thought to-day is char-Right, and I know what is Wrong, acteristic of the motor age. It and I shall always try to steer a travels fast to see much. There is middle course between the two." too much distraction for proper

CASE FOR SEA POWER contemplation and realization. It The distinguished men who have might not be fair to say that come to the B.B.C. microphone national opinion is quite indiferent bave very lucidly restated the case to the subject of sea power, but for sea power. That case remains It is true to say that it gives very unassailable until ses power can be little serious thought to the mat-replaced by air power. Such a ter. The fact is that it is a little bewildered by loud, conflicting doctrinaires, and bewilderment has

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stultifying effect upon live in- terest. When the Navy was the unchallengeable guardian of our insular security the mental focus was simple and clear.

"MASS 'MIND" WILL NOT BE BOTHERED Hut "air-minded” controversy. not necessarily competent in pro- portion to its emphasis,, has cloud- ed over simple faith in the Fleet. High-speed thought will not be bothered to detach itself from the whirligig of "panting time" and try w reason out what is puzzling it. Let me make it clear that I am re- ferring to the "mass mind." In a word, the mass mind side-tracks problems rather on the principle of the medieval ambassador who said "Some say there will be, war some say there will not be war. but, tut, tut. I believe neither!" Let us concentrate upon making London safe from air attack frst, murmurs the mass mind. Sea Power will not do that.

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Lord Horder's four "points for health and happiness are...

Enough of the right food, Suitable shelter at a suitable

rent,

Decide aright

Access to fresh air, and

A reasonable amount of leisure and quiet.

He gave that advice recently when he opened an exhibition of "New Homes for Old" at Charing Cross Underground Station. Lon-

don.

"You can be comfortable in a

slum, I know," he said, "but you can't be healthy there. You can be comfortable in a luxurious West- End fat, but you can't be healthy there either.

I am not an expert-God help you were I to build your homes-- but I can tell if the architect or builder has in mind what he must have for the building of healthy and happy homes."

battleship." No doubt! But what would become of this country f we translated this woolly-minded argument into practice and, in- stead of spending millions on naval revolution in world transport is defence, put the money into "so- humanly possible, but so remote cial services" and a "higher stand- that we can scarcely envisage it as ard of lying"? As it is, the decline within the scope of "practical in our national virility has been politics." In an persistently re-subsidized quite heavily enough, garding air power as a menace to and one result is that the Army our Navy we are apt to overlook simply cannot attract the men it the fact that it is likewise a very so urgently needs because the dole valuable adjunct to sea power. is a much easier source of income. Here I think we might imitate the MAKING PEOPLE THINK Irish Mayor in his "middle couIR= " Maybe, as the late Mr. Rudyard Even if it be true that the menace | Kipling-and I rather imagine is greater than the advantage, yet | others before him--was so often. at least there is some sort of quoted as saying, "this is another balance and the new situation.is story." But to return to my start- by no means so one-sided as the ing-point, I do think that such a "school" doctrines maintain.

series of talks as we have been Why a salvo. of bombs should be having on the importance of sea any more deadly than a salve of power are of the greatest possible more correctly aimed heavy-gun | value. I would not suggest that projectiles, or why a torpedo from they serve an "educational" pur- an aircraft should be any more de- pose, because I am pretty sure that structive than a torpedo from a submarine, has not yet been made in association with broadcasting. people recoll from the very word clear; what is clear is, that sea power has never felt itself threa- tened out of existence by the one,, and therefore why should it do so by the other? Many years ago a distinguished Admiral, long since

means a ceaseless conflict between dead, said to me. "Naval progress

the new danger and the antidote." That is a truth which will always prevall so long as naval warfare

endures.

This is where the B.B.C. talks upon sea power come in with such revealing value. They make listen- ers think because they give them something very tangible to think about. As I have already said, the world at large is too "rushful" to- day to nurse complex questions and try and reason them out. But it is still very willing to hear such questions reasoned out by men whose competence for the purpose is implicit in their names. The average wireless listener instine- tively recoils from any suspicion of propaganda. He resents a feel- ing of being influenced in the gulse of entertainment. We all do a good deal of switching-off from this cause. But there has been nothing of the "manifesto" char- acter about the B.B.C. talks on sea power. The general aim has been to explain, not to expound-shome. distinction with a good deal of difference. Above all, there has been a refreshing abstention from any tendency to dogmatize.

That sclentine progress has not been kind to our "sea supremacy" we must all recognize. The steam coal of South Wales is the best in the world and in the days of bunkers the possession of this as- set gave us a great advantage. Now we are dependent upon over-

many of them in foreign" hands. seas, sources of supply of naval fuel. But there is one aspect of this matter which does not seem to me sufficiently taken into account. In the event of any future sea war such as we may visualize it seems reasonable to assume that a large proportion of our sea power will be engaged 'at a long distance from

Under the old régime this would have meant shipping coal from South Wales to our overseas coal- ing stations. So that, apart from Very vocal Labour leaders who the fact that one or more of our may or may not "lead" intelligent

avenues of import might be cut at working-class opinion) have been the source, the actual position is so persistently busy in trying to one of a reversal of direction. To obscure and distort what is really transport coal from Cardiff to a perfectly plain national issue Malta in war-time might be quite that it was very opportune to have. as risky a business as transporting this issue stated again in perfectly oll from Halfa to Malta. I am not plain terms. What Mr. Attlee and trying to pretend that the transi his friends may think about, the. tion from coal to oil has been need for guarding our sea com- otherwise than to our disadvant munications must really be a mat-age in a naval sense, but I do ter of indifference to most people think this disadvantage is rather as alongside what such men as too much stressed. Probably the Admirals, Sir Herbert Richmond fact that m certain cases it is and. Sir Richard Webb have to simply propaganda on behalf of say upon the subject to which they the coal industry Interest may have given afty years of profound have something to do with this. study, and which they do not ap- proach in any vein of pure political sophistry or with an Incredible disregard for immutable facts.

TWO OPPOSING "SCHOOLS." The question which is nowadays rather perplexing the public.ünder standing is not properly, expressed

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of an armaments race by other nations to reawaken this country to a realization of the supreme im- portance of sea power in adequate measure. This realization is only beginning, but happily it has start-

by asking whether we still need a ed in the quarters whence it can Navy superior to that of any other be given material effect. As I nation, but whether the defensive have endeavoured to point out, it value of sex power has not been would be neither fair nor true to radically".minimized by the de- say that national. Interest in the velopment of Aerial feets. It is Navy is a thing of the past, bus unfortunate that this problem has undoubtedly it has been fulled in- "produced, two opposing "schoola,” to general indifference. 60 much which have so far net 'out their | mischievons noniense has been views specifically as to render talked with Implications which- choice between them a very diffi- have fallen upon very receptive cult matter. There is a good deal ears in this spoon-fed age. 'which is palpably true in both

views. There is much which may

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