The wise man was he who could combine qualities of both the realist and the idealist, said the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, speaking in the House of Lords. Those two attitudes were not by any means incompatible, and it would be a great misfortune for human life if they were, because most of human life .for most of them consisted in a reconciliation of New Year resolutions with New Year deeds. The whole of human life would stop unless it were possible for all, in their respective ways, to make some effective reconciliation between realities, often ugly, and ideals which, as had been said, were the foundation on which all progress depended.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1938, Page 5
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