"Belgium, Holland and, to a less extent, our own islands," Lord Halifax continued, "have already proved that what is called over-population can be prevented by productive work.
"Economically, the world is far too closely knit together for any one country to hope to profit itself at the expense of its neighbours, and no more than any other can Germany hope to solve her economic problems in isolation.
"Through ¢o-operation—and we, for our part, are ready to ce-operate—ample scope for extending to all nations the opportunity of a larger economic life, with all that this means and implied in the term "Lebensraum."
"Ig the world were organized on paring to resist it. to cry for peace where peace, or pretend to a settlement unless it can be recognition of every ination's right free enjoyment of its independ-
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