DIPLOMACY AND ARMS
“ Since 191& perhaps some of his Majesty’s Governments have forgotten the self-evident fact that foreign policy can only be really effective if it has behind,it, the backing of force,, and they may have pursued a foreign policy which had not the requisite
backing since they had allowed that force to dwindle. Foreign policy pursued under such conditions is based really on bluff,” said Lord Perth, formerly Ambassador at Rome, speaking in the House of Lords. He was supported by Lord Stonehaven (since de ceased), formerly Ambassador at Paris, Cairo, and Vienna, who declared that diplomats could only play the hand
that was dealt to them by the Government at home, and they had had a mighty raw deal for a good many years past. The majority of the mistakes that had been made had been made here at home, by politicians, and not by the Diplomatic Service
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24716, 19 September 1941, Page 7
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