The Prime Minister's first words as he rose to address hushed House were: "I do not propose to say many words tonight. The time has come for action rather than speech.
'"eighteen months ago 1 prayed that the responsibility might not fall upon me to ask this country' to accept the awful arbitrament of war fear I may not be able to avoid that responsibility, But T would not have wished for conditions clearer than they are today as to where my duty les, (cheers), fo have not neglected any means of making it crystal clear to the German Government that. if they insisted on using force again, In the manner in which they used it in the ast, we were resolved. to oppose them by force. Now that all the relevant documents are being made public we shall stand at the bar of history knowing that the responsibil. ity for this terrible catastrophe lies on the shoulders of one man (Loud cheers), "The German Chancellor has not Inesitated to plunge the world into misery to serve his own senseless ambitions." (Loud cheers),
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