"We are Fighting to Maintain Rule of Law And Quality of Mercy in Civilized States"
London, Nov. 8.
are fighting in defence of freedom.
We are fighting for peace. We are meeting a challenge to our own security and that of others. We are defending the rights of all nations to live their own lives." This answer to the question as to what was the real purpose of the present struggle was given by Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, in a stirring broadcast speech last night.
"We are fighting also," he said, "against the substitution of brute force for law as an arbiter between nations, and against the' violation of the sanctity of treaties and disregard for the pledged word, We have learned that there can be no opportunity for Europe to cultivate the arts of peace until Germany is. brought to realize that recurrent acts of aggression will not be tolerated.
"It must accordingly be our resolve not only to protect the future from a repetition of the same injuries that German aggression has inflicted on Europe in the last few years, but also, so far as we can, to repair the damage successively wrought by "Germany upon her weaker neigh-hours.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.