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In recent developments in the Mediterranean statesmen and publicists are convinced that the occupation of Albania will turn out to be even more costly to Benito Mussolini than the occupation of Czechoslovakia has been to his opposite number in Germany. During the Ethiopian crisis in 1935 the British fleet scuttled out of Malta without waiting to count ten. Had war broken out, it would likewise have had to abandon Alexandria, where it had taken shelter. All Egyptian bases including the Suez Canal were then undefended, Italian submarines and bombers would have met very little resistance. Indeed, British naval officers made no secret of their intention to clear out of the Mediterranean in case of hostilities and take up a position west of Gibraltar.

The article focuses on issues related to World War II. It mentions the move of Germany to raid England's southern and eastern coasts by deploying its bombers, and that Nazi parachutists were dropped in industrial cities of Great Britain's midlands. The aim of Adolf Hitler's Battle for Britain is to make it clear that Germany has neither organized nor laid in supplies for a long war. Meanwhile, it says that business watches on the way acquired territories are being fitted for Greater Germany.