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BRITONS WHO OPPOSED WAR WITH GERMANY
During the war, thousands of British people were gaoled under a hastily contrived piece of legislation
entitled 'Regulation 18B', as being potentially sympathetic towards National Socialism or, simply but
actively being opposed to war with Germany. They were rounded up and without trial imprisoned. It
was said 'that every decoration from the Victoria Cross downwards, could be seen on the prison yard
at Brixton'. - For Those Who Cannot Speak, Michael McLaughlin.
"Let us be fair to these people who were imprisoned under 18B, and let us remember that they have
never been accused of any crime; not only have they not been convicted of any crime, but they have
never been accused of any crime. This should be remembered in all fairness to them."
- Lord Jowett, The Lord Chancellor to the House of Lords, December 11th 1946
BRITISH PEOPLE FOR PEACE
"The largest indoor meeting ever held in Britain occurred when over 20,000 people packed Earls
Court in London, to support a peace meeting organized by the British Union."
- Michael McLaughlin, For Those Who Cannot Speak
"A VISION WHICH EXCEEDED CHURCHILL'S"
"I had the privilege of enjoying the close friendship of Mr. Lloyd George for nearly twenty years, and
it is clear from Lord Gladwyn's letter (July, 28th) that he never knew him. He had all the courage of
Churchill and even greater vision. Churchill once described him to me as 'our most illustrious citizen,
who was always in the next field but one,' and Lord Birkenhead, when Lord Chancellor; 'I have not
yet discerned his equal, and doubt if I ever shall.'
Contrary to what Lord Gladwyn says, in the words of Harold Nicolson (who was there); 'He fought
like a tiger' in Paris for a better peace treaty at Versailles. He failed, not because of Clemenceau - a
'rude but reasonable man' - but because of the obstinacy of President Woodrow Wilson. Afterwards
he said to me: 'The world is too torn and miserable and hurt just now for a just and lasting peace. But
this is not the end, it is the beginning.'
I asked him what he planned to do, and he said; 'Revise the Polish frontier in Silesia; abolish the
Polish Corridor between East and West Germany, which is a running sore; abolish reparations, and
with them all inter-allied debts; and get a good international monetary system. After that, we shall
get, I hope, steady and agreed disarmament and closer European co-operation.'
He started well at the Genoa Conference of 1922, which he dominated. Then everything crashed.
Rathenau was assassinated. He himself fell from power, Stresemann died, Briand was consigned to
the political wilderness. The era of the political pygmies had arrived.
Lord Gladwyn goes on to say that he was an appeaser of the Nazis before the 1939 - 1945 war, 'when
the Foreign Office was increasingly firm and resolute'. This is flatly untrue. Lloyd George was never
at any time an appeaser, nor did he ever advocate unilateral disarmament. On the contrary, he
frequently condemned Neville Chamberlain's disarmament, 'which I never would have allowed', and
even Franklin Roosevelt's hinting at the possibility of Pearl Harbour. Tom Jones, his Welsh Secretary
persuaded him, and later Baldwin's, because Jones, who accompanied him, thought he was the only
man alive who could now prevent a Second World War.
But George gave nothing away, and afterwards Hitler said, 'what a pity for them that they have no one
else like that now.' He reckoned without one.
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