Al Murray
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Appearances Over Time
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Yeah, because, you know, let's be honest now, Jim.
Two sentences.
You're quite in love with the Royal Navy.
And I think...
I'm still thinking about that model of HMS Hood.
I am.
At the start of the war, the Admiralty and the Royal Navy, they're not really set up to counteract commerce warfare, are they?
They're not.
A handful.
Well, no, they're designed for political... They're the halfway house.
Political conspicuous consumption is what they're designed for.
Yeah.
They're designed for the newspapers.
Yeah.
For propaganda purposes, for the Nazi government.
And the cruiser force is spread around the world because that's what the cruiser force is for, after all, is to project the illusion of British imperial power all over the world and spread prestige across the planet.
It does a pretty good job of that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.