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"We have shown the path which small nations must take in the face of demands by dictator States. It has not been our fault that the democratic States have either been unwilling or unable to help us in this unequal struggle.
"In spite of the severity of the terms the Government has regarded assent to them as being in the national interest. As we have no hope of securing better terms by continuing the war, it has been preferred to agree to the present terms rather than continue a hopeless war."
The World. British Poet Alfred Noyes, who in the early years of the century was considered one of the greatest articulators of his "decent, dauntless people," wrote an eight-line poem addressed to the world's innocent bystanders:
Far off between the mountains and the sea In ancient days this word was sped "Tell them at home we held Thermopylae According to their word and lie here dead." Now from the North there comes a mightier cry—"We fought and failed against titanic powers.
But ask mankind—whose is the victory When every unchained heart on earth is ours?"