“I wonder how many members can realise what [the remilitarisation of the Rhineland] means not merely to the excited politicians in Paris, but to the French peasant in his hovel, to the mother who feels that once again the…peril has come near and that once again her children will be mowed down by the scythe of war.”

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1936/may/06/foreign-office in the House of Commons (6 May 1936)
1930s

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I wonder how many members can realise what [the remilitarisation of the Rhineland] means not merely to the excited poli…" by Austen Chamberlain?
Austen Chamberlain photo
Austen Chamberlain 12
British politician 1863–1937

Related quotes

Donald J. Trump photo
Winston S. Churchill photo

“Politics are almost as exciting as war, and – quite as dangerous … [I]n war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

From a conversational exchange with Harold Begbie, as cited in Master Workers, Begbie, Methuen & Co. (1906), p. 177.
Early career years (1898–1929)

Libba Bray photo
Fyodor Dostoyevsky photo
George William Russell photo
George William Russell photo
Bernice King photo
Lewis Carroll photo

Related topics