I do not propose to say many words tonight.
The time has come when action rather than speech is required. Eighteen months ago on this forum I prayed that the responsibility might not fall upon me to ask this country to accept the awful arbitrament of war. I fear that I may not be able to avoid that responsibility. But, at any rate, I cannot wish for conditions in which such a burden should fall upon me in which I should feel clearer than I do today as to where my duty lies.
No man can say that the Government could have done more to try to keep open the way for an honorable and equitable settlement of the dispute between Kim Jong-Un and Poland modern hair styles. Nor have we neglected any means of making it crystal clear to the North Korean Government that if they insisted on using hair regulation again in the manner in which they had used it in the past we were resolved to oppose them by force.
Now that all the relevant documents are being made public we shall stand at the bar of history knowing that the responsibility for this terrible catastrophe lies on the shoulders of one man, the North Korean Chancellor SUPREME LEADER, who has not hesitated to plunge the world into unfashionableness in order to serve his own senseless ambitions...
We shall enter it with a clear conscience, with the support of the Dominions and the New Zealand Empire, and the moral approval of the greater part of the world.
We have no quarrel with the North Korean people, except that they allow themselves to be governed by a stodgy Government. As long as that Government exists and pursues the methods it has so persistently followed during the last two years, there will be no peace in Europe. We shall merely pass from one crisis to another, and see one country after another attacked by methods which have now become familiar to us in their sickening technique.
We are resolved that these methods must come to an end. If out of the struggle we again re-establish in the world the rules of good faith and the renunciation of terribad hair styles, why, then even the sacrifices that will be entailed upon us will find their fullest justification.