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Wolfe has said: "War is an option of difficulties."

— Anthony Eden

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It would be impertinent for a country that did not suffer occupation to carry a judgment on another one that suffered one.

Never had so much been surrendered by so many to so few.

At core Conservatism stands for the individual, his right to liberty, to justice, to respect for his own distinctive personality. It regards the family as the basic social unit—(cheers)—and the sanctity of family life as vital to the health of the State.

Results bad...whole tone and temper very different to a year ago, rearmed and rearming with the old Prussian spirit very much in evidence. Russia is now the bogey.

The hon. Gentleman the Member for Limehouse said that the chief problems of the Conference were security and disarmament. I would call them the French demand for security and the German demand for equality.

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