And so we come now to Britain's final bulwark—the Navy.
The Navy is relatively stronger than it was before the war. Ger-menys navy is only a third of its pre-war size.
Our Navy is being strengthened further still. Forty-seven new ships will be launched in 1938—one aircraft carrier, three cruisers, 32 destroyers, eleven submarines.
These are only an instalment of what is to come. Other ships are building. They include five battleships, four aircraft carriers, fourteen cruisers, eight destroyers. seventeen submarines.
So there you have as much as can be told to the public of Britain's soldiers, Britain's guns, Britain's tanks, Britain's airplanes and Britain's ships.
Nearly 350,000 are engaged in this occupation of arms bearing.
The cost of it all is £332,927,000 a year, or £29 10s. for every family in the country.
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