Mr. Eden and Lord Cranborne, declared Mr. C. R. Attlee, Leader of the Labour Opposition, had taken the line of courage based on principle. There was, he added, no parallel to the present case in British history.
Just when a colleague was being attacked and abused by foreign countries, Mr. Attlee said, the rest of the Cabinet threw him to the wolves.
Referring to the holding of conversations with Italy, the Opposition Leader stated that "it would be a complete surrender to Mussolini fand sheer strategic madness regarding British defence.
"It means the end of the League of Nations. It means that lowering of Britain's prestige, notably in the Near East and in the United States, and there will be grave repercussions in the Dominions and the Colonies and stil more in Britain where thuosands hoped for a peace policy just Mr. Eden was the Foreign
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