"Our diplomacy has never ceased for a moment to apprise the countries of the perils coming on them, and to urge the common action by which alone security and safety could be attained. For weeks we watched the including five armoured divisions, were massed on the scene.
"Hitler has told us it was a crime in such circumstances for us to go to the aid of the Greeks. I do not want to enter into any arguments with experts, but this is the kind of crime of which he is a good judge.
"Looking back upon the course of events I can only feel, as the Prime Minister of New Zealand so ably declared, that if we had to tread again that stony path even with the knowledge we possess today, I for one would do the same thing again, But, aiter all military operations must be judged by the success which attends them rather than the sentiments which inspire them, though these too may play their part in the verdict of history and in the survival of races.
"It remains to be seen whether the Italian dictator, in invading Greece, and the German dictator, in coming to his rescue and involving Greece and Yugoslavia in a bloody welter, will in fact have gained an advantage or suffered a loss when the full story of this war is complete even from the military viewpoint,
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