"War, Armed Peace or Peace of Understanding"; Lord Halifax Declares Choice for Appeasement London, Oct. 25. must face frankly three possibilities the future seems to hold—war, armed peace or peace of understanding, declared Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, at Edinburgh last evening in his first public speech since the crisis, which he reviewed. "We wish to escape the first possibility and achieve the third, he said, "but it may be that, as Dante made his entry into Paradise through a war of Purgatory, so we, if we are to reach true peace, shall have to pass through a stage of armed peace to get there.
"If this country is to play its full part with others in securing peace, it must be able to speak with full weight.
It is the recognition of these facts that has inspired, in all classes and others, a desire to see the State make a greater call upon the service of individuals than it has yet felt necessary to do."
"If we are to make swifter progress with the re-equipment of all branches our. defensive power," Lord Halifax continued, "it is certain that his could only be achieved by the readiness of all people and interests fo make a great sacrifice to the common end. For some the sacrifice will de of money in order to provide fnonelal resources for what we need to do. Of others, it may be necessary te demand saeriflees in other forms. hold that there is a growing sense everywhere that war, quite apart from {ls horror and damage, unsettles more than settles, and accordingly there fre strong forces at work which make any country. think twice before re~ sorting to it.
here are other forces pulling in different and more dangerous direction, and the right conclusion to my nund in thig matter of armament for ational defence is that there is a good dear of sense in the old fashioned idea that an umbrella often helps to Keep the rain away."
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