We are not a fire-eating lot, you know.

We are all for peace, and we believe we are going to have it.
However, to answer your questions more closely, our obligations depend entirely upon the provocation giving cause for the war.

If France and Russia provoked it in any way, we should remain neutral.

If it were a war of sheer aggression from Germany against France, we might to a certain extent intervene.

There is not one of us, however, who believes for a single moment that Germany would enter upon such a war." "When you admit that we might to a certain extent intervene," Norgate said, "exactly how should we do it, I wonder?
We are not in a particular state of readiness to declare war upon anybody or anything, are we ?" he added, as they turned around and strolled once more towards the polo ground.
"We have had no money to waste upon senseless armaments," Mr.
Hebblethwaite declared severely, "and if you watch the social measures which we have passed during the last two years, you will see that every penny we could spare has been necessary in order to get them into working order.