Evening star., 1939-10-12
Accepting Reichstog Speech
Would Forfeit Honor He Says;
Demands Acts and Guarantees
Reich Government
Is Main Obstacle,
Commons Told
Tert OF Chamberlain speech,
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LONDON, Oct. 12-Prime Min
lister Chamberlain told Adolf Hitler
today he could have peace if he
wanted it but it must be real and
settled peace" and not that outlined
by the German Fuehrer in the
Reichstag last Friday.
Replying to Hitlers peace over
lures, Mr.. Chamberlain, in his week.
ly war report to the House of Com
mons. scorned IAN uneasy truce in
terrupted by constant alarms and
repeated threats"
He said the proposals of Hitler's
speech were vague and uncertain
and contain no suggestion for right
ing the wrongs done to Czecho-Slo-
vakia and Poland"
"The German government and the
German government alone" Mr.
Chamberlain declared, stands in the
way of the peace We are determined
to secure"
"Must Persevere to End"
The prime minister said that lack
Ing convincing proof by definite
acts and guarantees of Hitler's will
for peace Britain and France must
persevere in our duty to the end"
When Mr.. Chamberlain finished
his comparatively brief declaration
Clement R. Attlee. leader of the
Labor opposition, spoke in support.
Britain, Mr.. Chamberlain declared,
could not accept such a basis for
peace as Hitler proposed without
forfeiting her honor"
Mr. Chamberlain said that even
II Hitler's proposals contained sug-
gestions for righting the wrongs of
Poland and Czecho-Slovakia 1T
would still be necessary to ask by
what practical means the German
government intends to convince the
world that aggressions will cease
and that pledges will be kept"
Looking beyond the war, Mr..
Chamberlain asserted, whatever
may be the issue of the present
struggle and in whatever way it may
be brought to conclusion the world
will not be the same world that we
have known before"
The Prime Minister added:
1--WE are not aiming only at VIC
tory. but rather looking beyond it
to the laying of a foundation of a
better international system which
will mean that war is not to be the
lot Of every succeeding generation" :"
Choice Put Up to Germany.
"1t is for Germany to make her
choice" he asserted, whether to con-
tinue the war or show she wants
peace by definite acts and by the
provision of effective guarantees"
that her undertakings will be car
ried out.
Mr.. Chamberlain refrained from
giving specific statement on Brit
aims war aims despite a widespread
demand in some political quarters
for such statement.
This view was brought to the floor
of the Commons by Sir Archibald
Sinclair, Liberal leader, who ex-
pressed the hope the government
would soon go further in defining
war aims.
Sinclair said his own conditions
for peace included the Withdrawal
of German troops from Czecho-Slo-
vakia and Poland and letting Aus
tria decide its destiny by plebiscite.
Mr.. Chamberlain recounted the
various peace efforts, including those
of President Roosevelt, before Ger
many invaded Poland and added:
1T Is after this wanton act of ag-
gression with his own insistence on
the use of force that the German
Chancellor now puts forward his
proposals"
Must Restore Confidence.
Mr.. Chamberlain said the govern
ment knew that "in modern war
victor and vanquished must suffer
cruel loss" but surrender to wrong
doing would spell the extinction of
all hope and the annihilation of all
those values of life which have
through the centuries been at once
the mark and the inspiration of
human progress"
"Only when world confidence is
restored" he added, will 1t be pos
sible to find solutions of questions
disturbing the world which stand in
the way of disarmament, retard
restoration of trade and prevent i'm
provement of the well being of the
peoples"
Among those in the gallery listen
Ing to the Prime Minister'S speech
were August zaleski, Polish foreign
minister. and Ivan Maisky, Soviet
Russian Ambassador to Great
Britain.
Meanwhile, Lloyd George. Brit
aims World War Prime Minister.
continued to urge the door to
peace" be left open and announced
his major speech before the Council
(See CHAMBERLAIN, Page A-I93