No Prime Minister ought to commit this country to war unless he is convinced that the country is ready," Lord Baldwin continued.
"There is one observation on the lips of many people:—'you have got to fight some day, fight now.' greater fallacy was ever uttered, "War is never inevitable in' the: istance,'and if there were a 95 per cent, chance of war at some future date, T would hang on to the five per cent. until I died. believe that the Government will do that, and that is in the mind of the Prime Minister Lord Baldwin expressed entire agreement with these who would push on to bring Britain's defences to a satisfactory point with the least possible delay.
He paid tribute to the calm courage of the civilian population last week, when "every barrier of class had been swept away because a bomb or a bullet draws no class distinctions."
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