-57- #669, Eighteenth from London              
 
                                                            
 
 
           the world. We stand on our own rights.           
 
                                                            
 
 
We are prepared to defend them but we do not intrude for our 
      own advantage upon the rights of any friendly country in the 
      world great or small. We have given and shall continue to give 
      everything we have. We ask nothing in return except that consideration 
      and respect which is our due and if that were denied us we should 
      still have a good conscience. Let none therefore in our own country 
      and commonwealth or in the outside world misname us or traduce 
      our motives. Our actions are no doubt subject to human error 
      but our motives in small things as in great are disinterested 
      lofty and true. I repulse those calumnies wherever they come 
      from that Britain and the British Empire is a selfish power-greedy 
      land greedy designing nation obsessed by dark schemes of European 
      intrigue or colonial expansion. I repulse these aspersions whether 
      they come from our best friends or worst foes. Let us all march 
      forward against the enemy and for the rest let all men here and 
      in all countries search their hearts devoutly as we shall certainly 
                         continue to do.                    
 
                                                            
 
 
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