"Either we should have to make a futile protest, which would irritate Mussolini and perhaps drive him out of the League into the arms of Germany, or we should make no protest at all and give the appearance of pusillanimity."

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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomAnglicansConservative Party (UK) politiciansGovernment ministers of the United KingdomBritish Ambassadors to Spain
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Remarks to the Cabinet shortly before the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (19 June 1935), quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Collapse of British Power (1972), p. 358