As a matter of fact. it can be predicted confidently that in the looming struggle for domination of the air over the Mediterranean, the surface of the sea will become a no-man's-land. When that final contest gets going in earnest, with the air might of both opponents focussed on the middle sea, nothing afloat below will be able to survive. The Italian navy will be demolished beyond resurrection, and the British fleet will have to retire until the decision in the air is made, This north African picture, though obscured in the news, thus emerges as tactically of major importance, Apart from its meaning for the immediate theatre of war, it holds a moral for America. Just as the Germans succeeded in acquiring a lane of safety across a hostile Mediterranean, we can succeed—as the writer outlined in a previous despatch—in acquiring a lane of safety across a hostile Atlantic, for the delivery of American goods to Britain, Our problem in the Atlantic is not so much the establishment of a "bridge of ships" as of a "bridge of aviation", under which commerce can flow freely as of old.—Unifed Press,
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