Finland Must Not Be Allowed To Disappear

Whatever The Lengths To Which Others May Go, His Majesty's Government Will Never Resort To The Deliberate Attack On Women And Children And Other Civilians For Purposes Of Mere Terrorism.

I Am Speaking To You From The Cabinet Room At 10 Downing Street. This Morning The British Ambassador In Berlin Handed The German Government An Official Note Stating That Unless We Heard From Them By Eleven O'clock, That They Were Prepared At Once To Withdraw Their Troops From Poland, A State Of War Would Exist Between Us. I Have To Tell You Now That No Such Undertaking Has Been Received, And Consequently This Country Is At War With Germany.

We Are Resolved That The Method Of Consultation Shall Be The Method Adopted To Deal With Any Other Questions That May Concern Our Two Countries, And We Are Determined To Continue Our Efforts To Remove Possible Sources Of Difference, And Thus To Contribute To Assure The Peace Of Europe.

How Horrible, Fantastic, Incredible, It Is That We Should Be Digging Trenches And Trying On Gas-masks Here Because Of A Quarrel In A Faraway Country Between People Of Whom We Know Nothing.

Finland Must Not Be Allowed To Disappear Off The Map.