"Once violence and bad faith are laid aside, we are ready and anxious to join hands with others, including Germany, in work of real world reconstruction.
"We have repeatedly stated our willingness to make our own contri bution to this end, but it is impossi ble to begin to make any progress to that end unless, firstly, there is security, and unless nations can be released from the perpetual fear of attack by Germany and the necessity of huge armaments for ther defence."
"The first duty," Lord Halifax concluded, "remains that of securing conditions under which the rule of violence no longer operates, and under Which the pledged word of governments might again be held worthy of "honourable trust."—Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.