I hope,
and I do not think my hope is a vain one, that the forces which have
come together in our islands and throughout our empire may continue to
work together, not only in a military struggle, but to try to make our
country more quickly a more happy and more prosperous land, where social
justice and free institutions are more firmly established than they have
been in the past. [Cheers.] If that is so we shall not have fought in
vain at home as well as abroad.
With these hopes and in this belief I would urge you, laying aside all
hindrance, thrusting away all private aims, to devote yourselves
unswervingly and unflinchingly to the vigorous and successful
prosecution of the war. [Loud cheers.]
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THE GREAT WAR.
Speech by David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at Queen's
Hall, London, Sept. 19.
My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen: I have come here this afternoon to talk
to my fellow-countrymen about this great war and the part that we ought
to take in it. I feel my task is easier after we have been listening to
the greatest war song in the world ("The March of the Men of Harlech").
[Applause.]
Why Our National Honor Is Involved.
There is no man in this room who has always regarded the prospect of
engaging in a great war with greater reluctance and with greater
repugnance than I have done throughout the whole of my political life.
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