A BRITISH VIEW.
"No statesman would be wise to forget the classio example of the case of Mr Pitt who, the House will remember, a short time— I tbinlr six months only — before fiurope was plunged into the revolutionary wars, had the misfortune to assure the House of Commons that there never was a time when from the situation of Europe we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace. But that said, and applying the best judgment that His Majesty's Government can, and putting the matter on the lowest grounds of selfinterest, they do not believe that any country to-day is prepared, much less anxious, to take the responsibility of letting loose a war that might spread through Europe and beyond it."— Viscount Halifax.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 24, 12 February 1937, Page 4
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125A BRITISH VIEW. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 24, 12 February 1937, Page 4
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