- Robert Boothby: We'd gone to war for the defense of Poland. In the event, we did nothing to help Poland at all. We never lifted a finger. For the first three months of the war the greatest number of casualties were in the blackout. And we confined our war efforts to dropping leaflets on the German people. Telling them that it was a bad idea to go to war and a pity that they'd done it. And perhaps that we might make peace.
- Robert Boothby: The Norway debate was the only decisive debate I'd ever attended during my 34 years as a member of the house of commons because it was the only division which definitely brought about the fall of a government.