It happened that on the very day when the Report of the Convention was
laid on the table of the House of Commons, the Prime Minister made a
statement of profound gravity, beginning with words such as the British
Parliament can never before have been compelled to hear from the lips of
the head of the Government. For the moment, said Mr. Lloyd George, there
was a lull in the storm; but more attacks were to come, and--
The "fate of the Empire, the fate of Europe, and the fate of
liberty throughout the world may depend on the success with which
the very last of these attacks is resisted and countered."
Mr. Asquith struck the same note, urging the House--
"With all the earnestness and with all the solemnity of which I am
capable, to realise that never before in the experience of any man
within these walls, or of his fathers and his forefathers, has this
country and all the great traditions and ideals which are embodied
in our history--never has this, the most splendid inheritance ever
bequeathed to a people, been in greater peril, or in more need of
united safeguarding than at this present time.
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