Stafford Cripps Quotes

• Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.

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  Country, Foundation, Economic

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• We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

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  Long, Development, Intensity

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• Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

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  Idaho, Feelings, Problem

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• It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.

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  Fundamentals, Empires, Socialism

  "Hull Daily Mail" Newspaper, March 2, 1936.

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• Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form of conscription being proposed or introduced. Thus would be provided a most favourable political platform upon which to fight the National Government.

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  Fighting, Government, Effort

  "Your Alternative Government" by Talus, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (p. 36), 1945.

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• Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

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  Real, Party, Differences

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• But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.

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  Air, Assumption, Increase

  Stafford Cripps's Speech in the House of Commons opposing the National Government's decision to expand the Royal Air Force, api.parliament.uk. July 30, 1934.

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• We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment.

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  War, India, Delay

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• It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.

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  Gobierno, Ser, Personas

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• No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

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  Government, Giving, India

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• Nos hemos comprometido, y de ello son testigos las Naciones Unidas del mundo, a dar la mayor oportunidad para que la India alcance el autogobierno tan pronto como terminen las hostilidades. Repito que eso está fuera de toda duda.

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  Opportunity, Government, Self

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• Aparte de nuestros propios intereses vitales, no podemos ni debemos abandonar a esas otras naciones que ya han pasado por tanta tragedia y sufrimiento para derrotar los malvados designios de las potencias del Eje.

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  Axes, Evil, Design

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• Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

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  Mean, Government, Differences

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• Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

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  Government, Agreement, Effort

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• La India tiene ante sí un futuro grande y libre, en el que puede hacer su contribución especial al bienestar de la humanidad. La primera e indispensable parte de esa contribución es trabajar con las Naciones Unidas para la derrota del fascismo y de la agresión brutal.

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  Special, Being Free, Firsts

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• Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

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  Sympathy, War, May

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