Come What May

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 1 (Supplement)

Come What May

"On the sea, on the land, and in the air.” said Lord Halifax, “as a result of the last two or three years’ intensive drive, this country is a long way on the road to resuming its ancient strength, and if trouble came, and there was a temptation in any quarter to think that this country would not give a good account of itself, those bolding that opinion would make a very bad mistake. “While the last thing the British people want to do is to pick quarrels with anybody, they are, nevertheless, so made that if a quarrel were ever forced upon them, I should have no shadow of doubt either as to what their answer or what the ultimate outcome would be.

“Even if all our efforts wore to fail,” Lord Halifax added, "and this country found itself obliged to face War, I should have no sort of doubt that we had been 100 per cent, right to make the efforts we have made, and are making, to show Europe the more excellent way.

“For in such event the whole British people, irrespective of party and everything else, would be united as one man; their honest desire for peace would have been shown beyond any possibility of doubt; they themselves would have an invincible spiritual conviction of right; and the effect on the moral opinion of the world, with all that that would mean, would be incalculable.”