Lord Halifax went on to refer to which he had seen had been made abroad, that if the British t stood for peace, there Other countries who fall io the oppos te error. Such people attempt to interpret our will for peace Of our weakness, cowardice resolution.
"I should like to make it quite clear that one is as unfounded and as completely mistaken as the other.
Responsible heads of Governments in Burope, he said, had at various times proclaimed that war brovgl: no advantage to the victors. That was a statement, the truth of which had been brought home to the peoples of Great Britain and France within the lifetime of the present generation and it was not, therefore, surprising that they should stand together to condemn war as an instrument of national policy.
Lord Halifax assured the House that the British Government wished to see its mind more closely alongside the minds of other Governments, who would join them in the policy of abolition of war as am instrument of national policy.
"That was not to say, he continued, that the people of this country or France would refrain from resisting by force any threat to their lives or ce, or what they believed to be their vital interests.
"Mein Kampf" Citeà
Quoting Herr Hitler im his book "Mein Kampf" on the subject of German pre-War miscalculctions of the Englishman and his Empire, Lord Halifax said: "Our resources remain enormous and the spirit of our people has not altered.
"We do not desire a test of strength because we believe that, while wars are apt to unsettle more than they ever Lettled, there is no question that, given goodwill, cannot be brought fo a solution through a full and frank discussion.
"The Government would ask for stances s 1 so Ives as to make that treatment of the many with which we are concern-possible.
the other hand," concluded Lord Halifax, no cne who knows the British mind will doubt that should
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