WAR AND PEACE.
POLITICIANS AND SOLDIERS. (PBOU OUR OWKT CORBBBPONSINT.) LONDON, February 18. The Earl of Harewood, presenting a standard to the British Legion at Armtborpe, a colliery village near Doncaster, on Saturday, said:— "I am not one of those who have a great deal of hope in the League of Nations, the Naval Conference, and all those sort of things. Without disparaging them—for they are all doing their best—we must remember that there are a tremendous lot of people iu this world who like to pick a quarrel, not with their enemies, but with their friends.
"You have only to get intimate enough with them for them to pick a quarrel, and that is what I am afraid will happen when we get the League of Nation's running smoothly and are intimate friends with all the foreign nations. Don't let us leave all the efforts to produce peace to the politicians. It is not the soldiers who make war; it is the soldiers who end war. If we look to those who make war, we can't help but turn to the politicians. Let us be a little more active on the side in which we can take a personal part ourselves—a part to avoid quarrels tfith our neighbours, to help our neighbours through their quarrels, instead of picking holes in them and making their troubles worse.''
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 18
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