Good Intentions Not Enough, Halifax Says
NEW YORK, April 21
“Whatever arrangements have been made for international order, we must not forget that unless it has behind it a force sufficient and ready to prevent violation, sooner or later a Hitler. Tojo or Mussolin will rise to challenge it,’ - said Lord Halifax speaking at the convocation of Michigan University. “We arc filled with good intentions about building security and peace. In 1919 our intentions were not less good. It is clear that, these good intentions were mot enough. We signed a covenant with the League of Nations, also the Kellogg Pact, but the covenant has not insured peace and the Kellogg Pact did not outlaw war. “The personal demands which peace will make will be different from the demands that war is making, but they will be just as great and just as necessary as treaties, pacts and covenants are necessary. “But unless we are ready, in the last resort to see to it that they mean what they say. they are a dangerous illusion.”
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Northern Advocate, 24 April 1944, Page 5
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