We are convinced that the problem raised goes far beyond our simply assenting to an international protocol.
I know that it is assenting to his order, but only under great duress.
I must not, of course, be taken as assenting in any way to the statements in the question.
He did not believe in assenting to measures calculated to swell private profits.
That is the great danger which we have to face in assenting to this clause.
I do not wish to be on record as assenting to that view.
The agreement made provision for all conceivable difficulties, and the representatives of the owners agreed we had been fair in assenting to these arrangements.
Whatever the reason may be, the fact remains that we are assenting to-night to a rather solemn farce.
