He suggested that Germany's latest move may have been due to "internal weakness," but added that whatever it was it should be a lesson to neutrals "who are unprepared to ask for help until it is too late," which, he said, they often had done.
He contrasted the humane methods of the Allies when he said they had been forced to violate Norwegian neutrality by laying mines.
World opinion, he believed, would not recognize "destruction of two other countries' independence" as a reasonable reprisal, as Germany claimed.
Referring to the Anglo-French war agreement, Lord Halifax declared: "France and Britain are combining ceran attributes for the common good of both, not only in the colonial sphere put in movements where labour organizations, employers and educational authorities all are playing \neir part."
The history of the past 20 years would have been different, he be~ lieved, if a similar agreement had been made in the last war.
Progress of the war, he concluded "depends upon the will power to be marshalled to the task. All the energies and efforts of Great Britain and France with 110,000,000 people are directed without stint to the one end of victory, and the mighty war machine created must in the end prove irresistible. 1 "It is easy to make aggressive war when, like Germany, one has no scruples."—Reuter.
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