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A Grand Alliance for Peace “If a number of States were assembled around Great Britain and France in a solemn treaty for mutual defence against aggression; if they had their forces marshalled in what you may call a Grand Alliance; if they had their staff arrangements concerted; if all this rested, as it can honourably rest, upon the Covenant of the League of Nations, in pursuance of all’the purposes and ideals of the League of Nations; if that were sustained, as it would be, by the moral sensf of the world; and if it were doim in the year 193S —and, believe me, it may be the last chance there will be for doing it —then I say that you might even now arrest this approaching war. Then perhaps the chrse which overhangs Europe would pass away. Then perhaps the ferocious passions which now grip a great people would torn inwards anil not outward- in an internal rather than an external explosion, and mankind would be >pared the deadly ordeal towards which we have been sagging and sliding month by month. I have ventured to indicate a positive concep;ion, a practical and realistic conception, and one which T am cunvini-cd will unite all the forces of this country." —Mr Winston Churchill.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20576, 13 August 1938, Page 6
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