These standards, he continued, sometimes failed and were discarded as unsuitable for political emergency and, when that occurred, the English were apt to be horrified and shocked, "At such moments," Viscount Halifay went on, "voices are raised clamouring that we should intervene in a disordered world, put ever thing straight and change an order different from our own into something which we can recognize as English.
"These voices are extremely loud at times and, I believe, sincere, but they are not the dominating factor in our foreign relations."
Lord Halifax, continuing, said that the British foreign policy, as he understood it, was not directed so much to to-morrow as to a later day, of which. sometimes, the outlines had not as yet taken definite shape.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.