However Much We May Sympathize With A

However Much We May Sympathize With A Small Nation Confronted By A Big And Powerful Neighbor, We Cannot In All Circumstances Undertake To Involve The Whole British Empire In A War Simply On Her Account. If We Have To Fight It Must Be On Larger Issues Than That.

Ever Since I Assumed My Present Office My Main Purpose Has Been To Work For The Pacification Of Europe, For The Removal Of Those Suspicions And Those Animosities Which Have So Long Poisoned The Air. The Path Which Leads To Appeasement Is Long And Bristles With Obstacles. The Question Of Czechoslovakia Is The Latest And Perhaps The Most Dangerous. Now That We Have Got Past It, I Feel That It May Be Possible To Make Further Progress Along The Road To Sanity.

Armed Conflict Between Nations Is A Nightmare To Me; But If I Were Convinced That Any Nation Had Made Up Its Mind To Dominate The World By Fear Of Its Force, I Should Feel That It Must Be Resisted.

It Is Evil Things That We Will Be Fighting Against-brute Force, Bad Faith, Injustice, Oppression And Persecution-and Against Them I Am Certain That The Right Will Prevail.

This Is A Sad Day For All Of Us, And To None Is It Sadder Than To Me. Everything That I Have Worked For, Everything That I Have Hoped For, Everything That I Have Believed In During My Public Life, Has Crashed Into Ruins. There Is Only One Thing Left For Me To Do; That Is, To Devote What Strength And Powers I Have To Forwarding The Victory Of The Cause For Which We Have To Sacrifice So Much... I Trust I May Live To See The Day When Hitlerism Has Been Destroyed And A Liberated Europe Has Been Re-established.