163 On you alone this man depends ...he is the skipper of a mine-sweeper and he is stretching out his hand to you for your binoculars. ...so is a coast-defence watcher—an A.A. gunner— a tank commander in the desert. Week by week, as our battle front grows wider, the need for binoculars grows larger and more urgent. It would take thousands of workers at least twelve months to manufacture the binoculars we need at this very moment. We must release these men for making gun-sights and bomb-sights. Every pair in the country is needed—for that skipper—for some fighting man.