Medium weights in popular shades world could possibly suffer. It is to avert such a dread possibility that the only policies which can be followed with any degree of safety are policies of realism, in which the bare and ugly facts are faced, and every precaution taken against any such developments as are clearly possible, and in certain events undoubtedly probable. There is nothing in what Sir Robert or Mr. Churchill said to justify the beliefs that any such sacrifice as that made at Munich is being contemplated by the British Government. That idea appears to prevail in the minds of those who are so complacently certain that they and they alone fully understand the duty of Great Britain. The whole world situation demands ghat very long-sighted views should be taken even of the nearest
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