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He had therefore, he went on, " bought " nine

months for inquiry. " I would do it again," he exclaimed with a simplicity and sincerity of intonation that won the heart of the House more than it could have won by tactical cleverness or by rhetoric. Mr. Baldwin repeated that it was easier to be " rattled into war " than " rattled into peace." He had nevertheless learned, what he had never believed before, that the trade union alliance had the will as well as the power to inflict irreparable damage on the country. He had yielded because the coal industry was unique and indispensable, but he must warn Labour that the concession the Government had made would not be repeated in favour of other industries, nor Would the 'nation ever submit to extra-Parliamentary dictation.

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