Mr. Winston Churchill's solution of the Mediterranean problem is, on
his own showing, fantastically dangerous. He brought a certain number of battleships away from the Mediterranean on the ground that they could not be spared there, but were urgently needed at home. Now he is going to send back to the Mediterranean a larger and more powerful body of ships than he took away, on the ground that they are more needed at Malta than they are in the North Sea. Yet in the interval between the two policies the only thing, according to his own speech, that has happened has been a further development of German power in the North Sea. On Mr. Winston Churchill's own premises the only sound thing to have done would have been to provide an entirely new and extra squadron for the Mediterranean of eight battleships. What he has done is to negative in July the policy which he declared essential to our safety in March.
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