Evening star., 1938-10-03

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 3.-Prime Minister
Chamberlain today acclaimed the con-
tribution of President Roosevelt to
last weeks negotiations which averted
a European war.
"The voice of the most powerful
nation in the world" spoke across
the sea to sway Europes statesmen
to ways of peace, declared Chamber
lain in his defense in tense House
of Commons of the Munich FOUR
power accord for the dismemberment
Of Czechoslovakia.
The Prime Minister angily tossed
back cries of "shame!' at his critics
and announced an immediate $780,
100000 loan for dismembered C1echo-
slovakia.
'The prayers of millions were an
swered" by the Munich pact, Cham
berlain declared.
The prime minister replied to Bit
ter denunciation of his bargain with
the dictators by Alfred Duff Cooper,
who out Saturday as first lord of the
admiralty and who broke into bitter
sobbing when he declared that the
Munich terms stuck in my throat"
Pays Signatories Tribute.
Chamberlain paid tributes to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and to his fellow sigma
tories of the Munich agreement,
Reichsfuehrer Hitler and Premiers
Mussolini and Daladier.
"The messages of President Roose-
welt, so fairly and yet so persuasively
made, showed how the voice of the
most powerful nation in the world
could make itself heard across 5000
miles of ocean and sway the minds of
men in Europe" said the Prime Min
lister.
Chamberlain promised cheering
house to build on the foundations he
had already laid toward a towering
structure of peace for Europe and the
world.
He declared he could see chances for
disarmament Opening up before U.S."
Government supporters gave him
tremendous applause as he resumed
his seat at ABS pm. O1:25 am, E.
s. T) after speaking 50 minutes.
In concluding he said that the 'les-
son we should learn from last week
was that lasting peace was not to be
attained by sitting still and waiting for
1t to come. 1t requires active and
positive efforts"
Then the attack on the Munich
accord, begun by Duff Cooper, was
resumed by Clement R. Attlee, leader
OF the Labor opposition, who called the
pact "a victory for brute force"
We have seen the cause of democ-
racy, civilization and humanity receive
a terrible defeat" said Atlee.
D. Says Czechs Betrayed"
Attlee charged that "Czechoslovakia
has been betrayed" and Chamberlain
has been duped by dictators."
Hitler, he said, has overthrown the
balance of power in Europe" destroyed
"the last fortress of democracy in
Eastern Europe and opened the way
to food and oil resources which he
requires in order to consolidate his
military power
Attlee, denouncing the four-power
arrangement, declared there should
be real peace conference, to which
they should call in America and Rus
sla, a conference to which people
would come not merely ito rattle the
saber."
The Labor chieftain was followed by
Sir Archibald Sinclair, leader of the
opposition Liberals, who asserted that
the governments foreign policy
Drought us to the edge of war and
that policy can never be the founda-
tion for lasting peace"
Sets Himself Task.
The 69-year-old Prime Minister
whose untiring will brought about
peace at price which satisfied Hitler.
after listening to Duff Cooper's
scathing attack, hammered home again
and again his conviction that he had
given the worlds millions what they
wanted more than anything else
escape from the stark horrors of war
Before he finished he set for him
self this task: Gradual removal of
hostility between nations until they
1eel they can safely discard their
weapons one by one."
To this he promised to put his hand
ana brain before hand my office to
. younger man."
: With angry words and gestures
chamberlain refused to let his critics
brand him with shame for his deal
with Hitler.
He admitted that four men at Mu-
0lch had laid 'only the foundation of
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