BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY.
NO AGGRESSION CONTEMPLATED TOWARDS ANYBODY. MARGIN OF NAVAL STRENGTH. (Received 19, 8.10 a.m,) London, February 18. Sir Edward iGroy, in the cpurs© of a second speech at Manchester, said: “We intend to preserve unlfrepaired our special relationships ppd friendships. Nothing is therein contemplated of an aggressive policy towards or which precluded goodwill to any. Wherever suspicion or mistrust existed ,we are ready to elepr it away.. No nation lOught to he offended if Britain maintains her proper margin of naval strength to «meat any probable or likely combination. Otherwise she would risk being struck down in he own house without pow? er to resist. It is a work frpm which some nations protect thpmselvpß with large armies and to which they ohght to easily understand that we cpnnot allow ourselves to be expoied*”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 19 February 1912, Page 5
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136BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 19 February 1912, Page 5
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