Mr. Chamberlain posed two further Possibilities—an assurance to France Of full support in the case of het acting under her treaty with Czechoslovakia, or a declaration of interference with the independence and integrity of Czechoslovakia.
Arguing that both involved the removal of the final issue of peace and war from the discretion of the British Government, Mr. Chamberlain said that the "position is not one His Majesty's Government could see their way to accept in relation to an area where their vital interests are hot concerned in the same degree as they are in the case of France and Belgium.
"It is certainly not a position that results from the Covenant. For these reasons, His Majesty's Government feel themselves unable to give the prior guarantee suggested.
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