SUBMERSIBLE!
[The answer to the Navy’s problem is a submersible aircraft carrier.— Sir Keith Park.] Sir Keith Park has a vision—or a
“guess”: To sink the navy, not as Scapa Flow But just ‘sub-mare’ —to avoid the mess That atoms microscopic, at a blow Would make, as bombs, of navies, earth and sky, Of- peoples, cit ies, nations, of us all. So duck your heads, not ostrichlike, but spry, Get down beneath the water. Do not call On rocks and mountains to forestall your fate (So in the day of judgment men will go!) But fall into thenar ms of Neptune; sublimate Your fears and quakes, your trembling and your woe: Tn short, when at the ultimate of Luck, Just emulate Park’s "carriers” — and DUCK. (Contributed.)
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 195, 31 May 1946, Page 2
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