Evening star., 1938-10-03
Chamberlain
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peace" But he envisioned a super
structure in the making.
As for Hitler, Chamberlain told the
House he believed there was SINGER
ity and good will on both sides at
Munich and challenged any one to
deny that friendship between Britain
and Germany is vital to Europe.
The 100000 pound ($50,0OO,00O)
loan for Czechoslovakia announced by
Chamberlain is third of the amount
asked by Prague, he disclosed. The
granting of an additional 100000
pounds ($1O0,0O0 0OO) in credits will
be considered later, he said.
The Prime Minister went at length
into an effort to show that Hitler had
made concessions at Munich from his
previous demands. He gave Mussolini
credit for getting the mobilization of
the German Army postponed pending
the Munich negotiations.
He revealed that it was MuSsolini
and his son-in-law and foreign min
lister, Count Ciano, who first evolved
a basis for discussion at Munich.
est force of all was that sense of the
unmistakable unanimity among the
peoples of the world that war some
how must be averted"
Chamberlain told the House, "I have
nothing to withdraw or regret" con-
corning the four-power accord of
Munich for the dismemberment of
Czechoslovakia.
Chamberlain began his defense of
his bargain with the German chan
cellor and the premiers of Italy and
France after it had been bitterly as
sailed by Alfred Duff Cooper, who
resigned Saturday as first lord of the
admiralty because the Munich terms
stuck in my throat"
When the House met last We'd
nesday," the prime minister recalled,
I'VE were under the shadow of a great
and imminent menace War, more
stark and terrible that it had ever
appeared before, seemed to be staring
us in the face.
To-day we know that the prayers
of millions (for peace have been
answered"
Il felt lonely and isolated" Duff
Cooper said in opening his attack on
the Munich treaty, when he heard
Chamberlain from window of No. 10
Downing street tell a cheering crowd
last Friday that he had returned with
peace with honor"
That there was cause for relief last
week, am aware, but that there was
cause for self -congratulation I am not
certain" Duff Cooper said.
The opposition loudly cheered Duff
Cooper when he entered the House a
few seconds before Chamberlain.
Amid the cheering, William Gala
cher, only Communist member of the
House of Commons, shouted at Cham
berlain:
Shameful! Hitler's yesman!"
Duff Cooper, saying that he had "a
painful and delicate task" in ex-
Nplaining his resignation, declared he
realized the majority of the House
''is most anxious to hear the Prime
Minister and that I am standing be-
tween them and him.
The great defeat of our foreign
policy of recent months and recent
weeks is that We have failed to make
it plain to other countries" he said.
He said Britain should "let them
know where you stand and what,
in certain circumstances, you are pre-
pared to do"
Duff Cooper continued:
I'VE have been drifting day by day
into war with Germany. We never
said until the last moment-and then
in uncertain fashion-that We were
prepared to fight.
Yet We knew that information to
Che opposite effect was being poured
into the ears of the German leaders,
Everything pointed to the fact that
Germany was preparing for war and
the one way that it could be prevented
was by Britain making a stand and
saying she would be in that war on
the other side
I'VE should have been fighting in
order that one great power should not
be allowed, in disregard of treaty OBJ
legations and the laws of nations and
the DEGREES of morality, to dominate
by brute force the continent of Europe.
I'VE were always told that on no
account must we irritate Herr Hitler.
1t was dangerous to irritate him before
he made public speech"
During the whole of this crisis