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Show "QUOTES" COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL CHARACTERS BRITISH NOT '"ANTI" By ANTHONY EDEN Lord Privy Seal. THE British are not "anti" any nation in Europe. They are not hostile to any people, nor do they regard any as antipathetic to them. The British people have never been good haters. Their inclinations have always been to forgive and forget for-get at once. Sometimes, indeed, this readiness has even seemed a little incomprehensible in-comprehensible to those who have been our comrades in arms, but it is an essential es-sential element of the British character. charac-ter. As in the past, so today. We are not "anti" any nation, but we should be and must be "anti" any who might seek by force to break the peace. We shall always be found arrayed on the side of the collective system against any government or people who seek by a return to power politics to break up the peace which by that system we are seeking to create. And let us not forget that the covenant itself provides the machinery whereby a peaceful settlement set-tlement of international disputes can be secured. |