"Never again while the risk of war remained must we allow ourselves to neglect our land weapon."
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Labour Party (UK) politiciansPeople from LondonDemocratic socialistsGovernment ministersSecretaries of State for Foreign Affairs of Great Britain and the United Kingdom
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Speech in London (16 July 1942), quoted in Quintin Hogg, The Left was Never Right (1945), p. 91
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Herbert Morrison
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, CH PC (3 January 1888 – 6 March 1965) was a British Labour Party politician and Cabinet minister. He led the Labour Party to control the London County Council from 1934. In the wartime coalition and postwar Attlee government, Morrison held various cabinet posts, including Foreign Secretary, Deputy Prime Minister and w:Home Secretary. Morrison was very close to attaining the leadership of the party at various points in his career, but Clement A
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