That is the lesson of this century. And if an aggressor gets away with it, others will want to get away with it too, so he must be stopped, and turned back. You cannot gain from your aggression. There was a secondary factor there. That part is the oil center of the world.
Oil is vital to the economy of the world.
So there were two things, aggressors must be stopped and turned back, and he must not get control of this enormously powerful economic weapon. It's no good advising other people what they should do, unless you do the maximum that you can to have it stopped. So we were all ready, and by that time Charles came into breakfast and also Anthony Ackland, who was Permanent Secretary, at that time, of the Foreign Office, so once again we worked through the arguments. I had no doubt about them. And so I was able to say exactly what I have said to you, what I thought.