A meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defense was summoned at London to consider the building of a sub-Channel tunnel to connect Britain and France.
Premier MacDonald took the chair; among those present were high naval, military and air force officers, ex-Premiers Balfour, Asquith, George, Baldwin.
The result of the meeting was not made public, but it was understood that the high officers of the services were against building the tunnel because of the impossibility of defending it during time of war.
Some 400 members of Parliament, in favor of the project, were pressing...
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