The Great Crusade: Extracts from Speeches Delivered During the War |
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... endure to the end for a bad cause . All these advantages are ours . But this is the moment of intense preparation . It is the moment of putting the whole of our energies at home into preparing for the blow to be struck abroad . Our ...
... endure to the end for a bad cause . All these advantages are ours . But this is the moment of intense preparation . It is the moment of putting the whole of our energies at home into preparing for the blow to be struck abroad . Our ...
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... enduring hard- ships , wounds , facing danger and death on the battlefield . Look at the calm , quiet courage with which the men and women at home are enduring grief . You can trust the people . I read a story the other day about a ...
... enduring hard- ships , wounds , facing danger and death on the battlefield . Look at the calm , quiet courage with which the men and women at home are enduring grief . You can trust the people . I read a story the other day about a ...
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... endure as that great Army of our sons in France . Controversy placed on one Side . I should like now to say a word or two about the Government itself , and , in doing so , I am anxious to avoid all issues that excite irritation or con ...
... endure as that great Army of our sons in France . Controversy placed on one Side . I should like now to say a word or two about the Government itself , and , in doing so , I am anxious to avoid all issues that excite irritation or con ...
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... and you will know something of what those gallant men are en- during for their country . They are enduring much , they are hazarding all , whilst we are living in comfort and security at home . You cannot have THE NEW GOVERNMENT 79.
... and you will know something of what those gallant men are en- during for their country . They are enduring much , they are hazarding all , whilst we are living in comfort and security at home . You cannot have THE NEW GOVERNMENT 79.
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... endure all these things , -then I say with all solemnity I do not know the body of hon- ourable men who would undertake for one hour to be responsible for the conduct of this terrible war . It is essential . There are millions of ...
... endure all these things , -then I say with all solemnity I do not know the body of hon- ourable men who would undertake for one hour to be responsible for the conduct of this terrible war . It is essential . There are millions of ...
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achieve action Allies America amongst Army attack Austria Austria-Hungary autocracy battle battlefield Belgian Belgium believe blood Britain British Army British Empire cause Central Powers centuries civilisation conference conflict Dafydd ap Gwilym defeat defend democracy destroy Dominions Eisteddfod Empire endure enemy equipment Europe face fact fighting forces France freedom French front gallant German give going Government greater greatest guns happened Hindenburg line honour hope hour human Hywel Dda independence Italy justice labour land liberty little nations lives means menace ment merely Mesopotamia Minister of Munitions Munitions neighbour never organisation party peace peril prepared Prussian Prussian military race ready realise Resolution Russia sacrifice seas Serbia ships sing soldiers SPEECH DELIVERED spirit strength struggle tell terrible territories things tion to-day tonnage treaty triumph unity valour victory Wales Welsh whole
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Page 114 - And let us not be weary in well-doing ; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Page 251 - The settlement of the new Europe must be based on such grounds of reason and justice as will give some promise of stability. Therefore, it is that we feel that government with the consent of the governed must be the basis of any territorial settlement in this war.
Page 124 - I can see peace coming now — not a peace which will be the beginning of war ; not a peace which will be an endless preparation for strife and bloodshed; but a real peace. The world is an old world.
Page 252 - Unless international right is recognised by insistence on payment for injury done in defiance of its canons it can never be a reality.
Page 283 - Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. We shall descend into the valleys again ; but as long as the men and women of this generation last, they will carry in their hearts the image of those great mountain peaks whose foundations are not shaken, though Europe rock and sway in the convulsions of a great war.
Page 256 - The natives live in their various tribal organisations under Chiefs and Councils who are competent to consult and speak for their tribes and members and thus to represent their wishes and interests in regard to their disposal. The general principle of national self-determination is, therefore, as applicable in their cases as in those of occupied European territories.
Page 259 - If, then, we are asked what we are fighting for, we reply — as we have often replied — We are fighting for a just and a lasting peace, and we believe that before permanent peace can be hoped for three conditions must be fulfilled. First, the sanctity of treaties must be re-established ; secondly, a territorial settlement must be secured based on the right of self-determination or the consent of the governed...
Page 281 - I honor their courage, and may God be their comfort and their strength. But their reward is at hand; those who have fallen have died consecrated deaths. They have taken their part in the making of a new Europe — a new world. I can see signs of its coming in the glare of the battlefield.
Page 258 - Apart from this, whatever settlement is made will be suitable only to the circumstances under which it is made, and as those circumstances change, changes in the settlement will be called for. So long as the possibility of...
Page 281 - I am sorry to say, a good many years even beyond that. But still our turn will come. It is a great opportunity. It only comes once in many centuries to the children of men.