Quote#Children
I wonder how many members can realise what [the remilitarisation of…
Quote byAusten Chamberlain · 1863–1937
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in the House of Commons (6 May 1936).
English (original)
I wonder how many members can realise what [the remilitarisation of the Rhineland] means not merely to the excited politicians in Paris, but to the French peasant in his hovel, to the mother who feels that once again the...peril has come near and that once again her children will be mowed down by the scythe of war.
— Austen Chamberlain
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