Even A Pacifist Should Admire The Military

It's A Necessary Quality Of A Diplomat Or A Politician That He Will Compromise. Uncompromising Politicians Or Diplomats Get You Into The Most Terrible Trouble.

We Forget Today That Britain Still Depends For Its Livelihood And, Indeed, Its Day-to-day Survival, On The Sea. But The Royal Navy Is Now Pitifully Small And Has Been Reduced In Size By The Current Government, Seeking Economies To Finance Its Social Programmes. Fine While There Is No Threat To Our Security. But What Use Would Schools And Hospitals Be If We Could Not Protect Our Imports?

I Can't Visualize The Situation In Which We Nuke Ourselves Into Extinction.

We Saw The Children And The Women With Their Babies And Then I Heard The Poouff — The Flame Had Broken Through The Thatched Roof And There Was A Yellow- Brown Smoke Column Going Up Into The Air. It Didn't Hit Me All That Much Then, But When I Think Of It Now — I Slaughtered Those People. I Murdered Them.

The Second World War Is The Largest Single Event In Human History, Fought Across Six Of The World's Seven Continents And All It Oceans. It Killed 50 Million Human Beings, Left Hundreds Of Millions Of Others Wounded In Mind Or Body And Materially Devastated Much Of The Heartland Of Civilization.