“I well know that there are many people who press for swifter and more radical solutions of the problems before us.”

— Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

10 January 1940, Speech at Orient Club, Bombay, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 229.

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