Peace Efforts Right

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 3

Peace Efforts Right

“While the last thing the British people want to do is to pick quarrels with anybody, they are, nevertheless, so made that if a quarrel were ever forced upon them, I should have no shadow of doubt either as to what their answer or what the ultimate outcome w r auld be, ’ ’ said the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, speaking in the House of Lords. “Even if all our efforts were to fail,’’ Lord Halifax added, “and Britain found herself obliged to face war, I should have no doubt that we had been 100 per cent, right to make the efforts we have made, and are making, to show Europe the more excellent way. For in such events the whole British people, irrespective of party and everything, else, would be united as one man; their honest desire for peace would have been shown beyond any possibility of doubt; they themselves would have an invincible spiritual conviction of right; and the effect upon the inorai opinion of tho world, with all that that would mean, would be incalculable. -»