The only reason from beginning to end is that our foreign office is anti-German and that the Admiralty was anxious to seize any opportunity for using the Navy in battle practice. ... Never did we arm our people and ask them to give us their lives for less good cause than this. (Ramsay MacDonald)

The only reason from beginning to end is that our foreign office is anti-German and that the Admiralty was anxious to seize any opportunity for using the Navy in battle practice. ... Never did we arm our people and ask them to give us their lives for less good cause than this.

Ramsay MacDonald

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