Quote#Speech
We desire to go on working to maintain world peace, and to strengthen…
Quote byStanley Baldwin · 1867–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Film broadcast (31 October 1935), quoted in John Ramsden, A History of the Conservative Party: The Age of Balfour and Baldwin, 1902–1940 (1978), p. 345.
English (original)
We desire to go on working to maintain world peace, and to strengthen the League of Nations, and I give you my word – and I think you can trust me by now – our defence programme will be no more than is sufficient to make our country safe and enable us to fulfil our obligations. That much we must have.
— Stanley Baldwin
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