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Profound Change “In the last year there has been a profound change. Great Britain has once more found itself. We have made up our minds that there can be no future for civilisation unless two at least of its basic achievements are preserved—individual freedom and national freedom. We do not believe that there can be any wav forward so long as one nation claims the right to send its secret police into another’s country and to confine its noblest citizens iu prison and concentration camps for being loyal to their own country. Nor do we believe that any true international order can be built except on the foundation that every developed people has the right to autonomy and self-government. This is not encirclement. It is fidelity to two of the essential cornerstones of civilisation itself. Once they are accepted by other nations, I believe the door to settlement will be opened and the risk of war will begin to disappear. But if these two principles are to be challenged, and challenged by force, I think this nation has made up its mind to resist their further destruction by force.”—The Marquess of Lothian.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20907, 12 September 1939, Page 6
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196TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20907, 12 September 1939, Page 6
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