... pain Mahan in his Interest of America in Sea Power, says • that the Caribbean Archipelago is the very domain of sea power. . . . In the Ouster of island fortresses of the Caribbean is one of the greatest of the new ' ,serve centres of the whole body ...

... (Continued) If there was a personality at the War Office as able and powerful as there is at the Admiralty our poliey in the Caribbean would have been conceived on different lines no But even then it would riot meet the case because our commercial strategy ...

... special privileges. Are we going to allow to become even as Puerto Rico ? It looks like it, as every step taken by us in the Caribbean , seems to be retrograde. But, as a rule, our attitude is a perfectly passive one. If we imagine that the expansiout of the ...

... idea of a. grant in aid to the West Indie,l„ /Int it is not so shocking as the unbusinesslike methods of government in the Caribbean, for which we are largely responsible. The Colonies have no money for progressive undertakings, because it is spent in salaries ...