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[4] 351 H.C. Debs, 2 September 1939, col. 282.
[6] Ibid., col. 283. [7] A.J.P. Taylor, English History, 1914-45, (NY: Oxford University Press, 1965), p. 452, quoting Leo Amery, My Political Life, vol. 3, p. 324. [8] He was the Foreign Secretary who had permitted the first act of aggression by a totalitarian state to go unpunished. He shares much of the responsibility for the position Britain had found herself in September 1939. In addition, he was one of the Ministers in the Henry Asquith Government [1908-1916] who resigned in 1914 to protest British entry into World War I. Thus, his role was quite ironic. [9] Taylor, p. 452.
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