However he also concedes that Britain was engaged in 'a life and death struggle in the West' and that 'this decision, however painful and regrettable, was inevitable and right'.
不過他同時承認英國「在西方正處於生死搏鬥」，因此「儘管令人感到痛苦和遺憾，這個決定是無可避免和正確的」。