We do not think it would serve any useful purpose
to enumerate more in detail the efforts which are being made by Germany to wrest from us the command of the sea, efforts which we have no right to meet with angry words, but which, if we are a people worthy of our past, we must meet with the deeds of preparation. We are sorry to say that Mr. Winston Churchill's way of meeting the menace which he de- scribed so eloquently is to do the very minimum of what is necessary for the safety of the Empire ; to run it, in fact, as fine as possible. That way of meeting danger is bad from two points of view. In the first place the danger is one too great to be shaved by a millimetre. When a miscalculation in the policy of just doing enough means absolute and eternal ruin, and a mistake in the direction of doing too much means merely a certain waste of material, the wise man sees to it that the risk he runs is that of doing too much, not of doing too little. Mr. Churchill and his colleagues prefer to un the risk of doing too little.
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