FORCE TO BACK DIPLOMACY
“We are living in a dangerous world, but the strength of Britain is already such that anybody will pause before’ committing his country to an attack on the British Empire," said Mr Ormsby-Gore, the Colonial Secretary (now Lord Harlech), in a recent speech. “I am satisfied that we have to endeavour to get reconciliation wherever we can, and. above all. we have to try to look forward to the day when we can get back to an effective League of Nations and to something approaching collective security, by getting a more comprehensive view.” Was it not perfectly clear, he continued, that diplomacy to-day was quite useless unless there was armed strength behind it, and a national resolve behind that armed strength? They had to face the fact that diplomacy and representations—sending Notes and making speeches—counted for nothing unless behind them there was the power to back them up by national force in the last resort
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23514, 31 May 1938, Page 12
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