• When Parliament reassembles, the Channel Tunnel Committee, which has
slumbered since the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1924 rejected the project, will awake. The House will he invited to reconsider the Tunnel scheme, with regard to the changed circumstances " arising from diplomatic developments in recent ye,ars.".; This seems to us rather to beg the question, for obviously if statesmen and public opinion are satisfied that there can never be another war, the military and political arguments against a tunnel fall the ground.– Re would be an optimist, hOwever, who sees sufficient. evidence of a change of opinion among statesmen. Although recognizing the benefits of a tunnel to trade and travel, we haye in the past supported the Military View, not for any reasons of strategy, but because 'the mere exist- ence of a threat to security is seen to have Psychological consequences which are detkitnental to peace. '
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