Austen Chamberlain Quote

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 in the House of Commons (6 May, 1936).