Letter from J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer] (Gregories, Beaconsfield [Buckinghamshire]) to WSC, commenting on the bleak solitary fight that he has been waging, and his fears for the country and Empire over the next few years. He has given Stanley Baldwin [the Prime Minister] a memorandum urging him to make WSC responsible for securing air parity [with Germany], and adds that a crisis has already occurred with Italy, commenting that "Never was Government in this country quite so blind. Never!". He has never had any illusions about Benito Mussolini, but thinks that "strength of means must go before strength of policy" on Italy. Garvin adds that he has urged Neville Chamberlain [Chancellor of the Exchequer] to work with WSC, and believes that WSC alone can state the case for Defence, as Chamberlain has never had the chance to master such matters. Manuscript.