The Archive · 1938

His Views on Italian Talks

(Continued from page 5) he was confident that the Italian Government would approach the negotiations in the same spirit as the British themselves, namely, in perfect good faith and with a desire to reach an agreement, The Prime Minister observed parenthetically that perhaps in that sentence he had expressed the difference in outlook between Mr, Eden and himself, He believed that if the negotiations were approached in a spirit of mutual confidence, there was good hope that they might be brought to successful conclusion, If they were entered upon in a spirit of suspicion, however, then no previous guarantees would necessarily preclude bad faith, "I am not here to say that the actions of italy in the past have been satisfactory to me," Mr, Chamberlain asserted, "but I am concerned with the future and not the past.

"I have never been so convinced of the rightness of the Cabinet's decision as in this case, The aim is general appeasement throughout Europe and its peace for generations,"

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