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“ Tjhis country must look at the new situation with thorough common sense and practical grip. Let us clear our minds of cant. We are perfectly entitled to say, as we do, that, while staunch to our Locarno pledges, we are determined once for all not to undertake any further r.sk for European security. That is our business. But not for a moment are we entitled to say that the nations with interests which we decline to guarantee ought to provide in their own way for their own security. That is their business. So far as we refuse to be responsible we must cease to interfere. As that is the wisdom of private life, so it is of public. There is an end of a hopeless procedure. We cannot again refuse to Franqe what she wants and yet try to press upon her what she does not want. We cannot reject, however wisely, extended Continental compliments, yet try to ram insular formulas down the throats of our friends. It is time to remember that under the Locarno Pact, which no one repudiates, the Entente Cordiale is a basis princife of British policy.” —The Observer, London.
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3505, 14 August 1934, Page 3
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