The victor shall not be asked later on whether he told the truth or not. In starting and making a war, not the right is what matters, but victory-the strongest has the right. The British Empire with its Allies has twice, within the space of 25 years, been victorious in wars which have been forced upon it, but it is precisely because we realize that victory is not enough, that might is not necessarily right, that lasting peace and the rule of international law is not to be secured by the strong arm alone that the British nation is taking part in this Trial. Let them pay the penalty of defeat. But that was not the view of the British Government.
Human memory is very short.
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