Yet time after time we have been forced to stay our hand.
Need I tell you why?
It is because, in all those small diplomatic complications which have arisen and from which war might have followed, England has been involved.

We want to choose a time and a cause which will give England every opportunity of standing peacefully on one side.
That time is close at hand.

From all that I can hear, your country is, at the present moment, in danger of civil war.

Your Ministers who are most in favour are Radical pacifists.

Your army has never been so small or your shipbuilding programme more curtailed.