Malta Is Incredibly Important

Malta is incredibly important to whatever plans or pipe dreams you may have about what you're going to do in the mediterranean. If you can't control it, after all, you don't control sici. It's blindingly obvious how important it is. So why does it take a thing like pedestal? Why has they not been trying this ore? Is it es tha shortage? Or is it just that the chiefs imperial general staff never got round to it? No, wellit's it's partly that'it's late 19 thirties, it's kind of, sort of, you know, rements is is under way,. They're doing al the big stuff