Reference to the international crisis was made in a speech in Sussex yesterday afternoon by Lord Winterton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He urged the necessity of keeping cool heads and a calm judgment amid the terrible perplexities of the present situation, Lord Winterton declared: "The crisis is by no means over. False optimism at the moment would be as dangerous as black pessimism.
"The Prime Minister is taking with him to Germany proposals which in the circumstances France and- ourselves believe that we can honestly and honourably make, and which the Czechoslovak Government have accepted.
"It is, I think, a fact that but for the Prime Ministers visit last week, a conflagration would already have started which' would almost certainly have enveloped all Europe sooner or later.
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