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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

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We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

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I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

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We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

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It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

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But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

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Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

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And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Politician

Born: April 23rd, 1897

Died: December 27th, 1972

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