FOREIGN POLICY
MUST BE BACKED BY FORCE. “Since 1918 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 deceased), 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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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4490, 15 October 1941, Page 3
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154FOREIGN POLICY Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4490, 15 October 1941, Page 3
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