Pleading for a realistic outlook, Mr. Eden expressed the opinion that the League of Nations, despite disappointments in recent years, "can still accomplish much, but members must have a sense of responsibility and count seriously the cost of any action they may take."
Dealing with suggestions that Britain should throw over the League and come to terms with states who who were not members, the Foreign Secretary said: "I am as anxious ax anybody to remove disagreements with: Gerihany, Italy or any other country, but I must make sure, in trying to improve the situation in one direction, that it does not deteriorate in another.
In such an event, he continued, the last state might even be worse than the former, Britain did not desire to isolate any country or to pursue a policy of revenge. On the contrary, she would continue her effort to prevent any country being isolated.
Period of "Storm and Challenge"
It was proving true, as feared, that the loss of the League's authority uncertainty, P would introduce a period of greater
"We are" Mr, Eden declared, in period of storm and challenge, when the hope is openly avowed that a variety of international anxieties will pevent effective resistance to unlawful courses in any one sphere.
"This is a dangerous doctrine. No nation will profit by such practices in the end. If they persist there will inevitably be a Nemesis, but meanwhile obligations are ignored, engagements are cynically torn up, confidence is shaken, and methods of making war without declaring war are adopted while all the time each nation declares that its one desire is peace, "In all this confusion and in the midst of the horrors being enacted in Europe and the Far East, we must persevere as strongly and effectively as we can, and with a full grasp of the realities concentrate on what can
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