Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on anti-British sentiments in Germany, stating that his source of information was much better than "anything the Foreign Office gets". Fisher presses WSC to adopt the "two keels to one" standard over the German navy, enclosing a letter from Rear-Admiral Sir Sidney Eardley-Wilmot about the "Big Gun" and the need to develop a 16 inch gun following the production of 14 and 15 inch guns in Germany and the United States. Fisher also comments on an "illuminating letter" from Vice-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, on the need for a bigger type of submarine, and also on a very serious defect in the "Hercules" and "Orion" classes in having inadequate bilge keels; also commenting on the political situation, particularly Irish Home Rule: "the first great step to that great coming federation of all who speak the English language - that bulwark of peace". [Typescript copy; originals at CHAR 13/14/48-52].