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...tenth anniversary of the signing of the Munich Pact and he was explicit in his resolve that Munich must never come again: "We cannot buy peace with appeasement. That course has always led throughout history and always will lead to greater and greater demands on the part of the aggressor. In the end it can lead only to slavery...
Churchill, who had been right about one Munich, did not want another. Said he: "The only hope of peace is to be strong, to act with other great freedom-loving nations, and to make it plain to the aggressor, while time remains, that we should bring the world against him, and defend ourselves and our cause by every means should he strike the felon's blow. I cannot guarantee that even a firm and resolute course will ward off the dangers . . . but I am sure that such a course is not merely the best but the only chance...
...United States ever again stoops to expedients ... if we cringe from the necessity of meeting issues boldly ... if we are to scamper from crisis to crisis, fixing principles and policies to the change of each day, we shall place ourselves supinely and helplessly at the mercy of any aggressor who might play on our public opinion and decimate our forces at will...
...should Christian civilization leave itself at the mercy of an aggressor who does not care where his bombs fall? The commission bowed to the ancient doctrine of "military necessity." If a nation which renounced The Bomb would be helpless before an enemy that did not, "then retention of the atomic bomb in a nation's armory is justifiable on the ground of necessity and indeed . . . obligatory. We must add that it might well prove to be a powerful deterrent also...
...Madison, Wis., Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. Wilhelm Morgenstierne spoke bluntly: "Peace can always be had-by individuals and nations-by giving in on every point until one is stripped of everything except peace-the peace of the grave. . . . We shall of course stand up against any future aggressor, from wherever he might come. We shall fight with everything we have. . . . Once more we shall prefer to die on our feet rather than live on our knees...