4 APRIL 1941, Page 5

In the week of the greatest naval battle of the

war, and perhaps the most spectacular naval victory in all the llistory of the greatest naval Power, I have been asking myself how many Englishmen, if challenged, could give the name of the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, the successor to Jellicoe and Beatty. One in ten thousand ? I doubt it.

JANUS.