NO YIELDING TO FORCE
Answering the taunt that British democracy has no life in it, the Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax) said in a recent speech: " I can say at once that Great Britain is not prepared to yield either to calumnies or force. It may afford some satisfaction to those who have pronounced our nation to be decadent to learn that (hey themselves have found the cure, and one most effective. Every insult that is offered to our people, every rude challenge that is made to what we value and are determined to defend, only unites us. increases our determination and strengthens our loyalty to those others who share our feelings and aspirations." " Here stand I," said Luther on an historic occasion; "I can no other." That, remarks the Daily Telegraph, is the stand which Lord Halifax has taken in the name of the British people, with whose authentic and united voice he has spoken. There can be no misunderstanding of those declarations and, what is more, there can be no going back on them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23867, 22 July 1939, Page 3
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175NO YIELDING TO FORCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23867, 22 July 1939, Page 3
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