The Archive · 1939

Force to Be Met by Force Says Foreign Secretary

Threat to Polish Independence Would Involve Britain in War; Lord Halifax Clarifies Policy

London, June 12.

RIY action which threatened Polish independence would inevitably start a conflagration in which Great Britain would be involved, declared Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary, in the course of a debate on foreign affairs in the House of Lords today. "Our assurances to Poland are clear and precise," he added. want to make it quite clear that if force is used today, those who use it must count on force being met by force."

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