BATTLE OF ATLANTIC VITAL
Sea Lanes Must Be Kept Open LONDON, May 2. The Parliamentary Secretary of the Admiralty (Lieutenant-Commander R. T. Fletcher) to-day emphasised the need for assuring victory in the E’ttle of the Atlantic. Victory, he said, was vital because Britain must keep open the sea lanes by which food and supplies were coming to England. Other theatres of the war were important, he said, but not so vital as the Battle of the Atlantic, and nothing must distract Britain’s attention from that thought.” For some time Britain could only hope to strike at Germany from the air, and the British Isles were really aerodromes from which those attacks could be made. Even if those islands were to fall to the enemy it would mean only the loss of an aerodrome and would not be the end of the struggle. They had the Prime Minister’s word for that.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21954, 5 May 1941, Page 9
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150BATTLE OF ATLANTIC VITAL Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21954, 5 May 1941, Page 9
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