"We, and those fighting side by side with us—men of our race from every quarter of the world, peoples owning the same loyalty' to the Crown, our French and Polish allies—we are all united in the will and, under Providence, we shall have the power to prove also the supreme! folly with which the German Gor ernment has moved to its own destruction."
Lord Halifax asked whether they covid feel secure that, through victory in this conflict between physical force, they could achieve their pur-obe.
"The Prime Minister," he continued, "has stated that we seek no vindictive peace, that we have no terrltorial ambitions for ourselves, and that we should feel the future to hold little hope unless a new peace settlement might be reached through methods of negotiation and agreement, "But we are determined, so far as it is humanly possible, to see to it that Europe will not again be subjected to a repetition of this tragedy.
"With this purpose in view, we shall use all our influence when the time comes in the building of a new world, in which nations will not permit insane armed rivalry to deny their hopes of a fuller life and future confidence, not to be forever oyer-borne by the grim foreboding of disaster,
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