Hijacked from the BBC website;
"Pitt's philosophy can be boiled down to three axioms:
- that the proper field of British endeavour was overseas and worldwide, not Continental and European
- that the navy, not the army, was the right instrument to advance British power
- that overseas trade was the means to the wealth, and hence the power, of the nation"
Where the hell is a man like this today? I'm sure he'd be behind CVF and more Type 45s.
Was there ever a HMS Pitt? Perhaps a third CVF for him? :-)
