Such action would exercise on the developments of the situation in /Austeia an influence inconsistent with the right of the German people to self-determination.
Mr. Chamberlaio, after stating that the British Government had remained in the closest touch with the French Government throughout, sai "Tt seemed to us that the methods adopted throughout called for the Jmost severe condemnations and that {they had administered a shock to ull Jwho were entrusted with the preservation of peace in Europe.
"It followed that what had passed Jeould not have failed to have pre-{judiced the hope of the British Gov-vernment of removing misunderstanding between nations and pro-Jmoting international ce-operation."
After the Prime Minister refuted rumours, sedulously put about in many quarters, that the Government thad given consent, if not encouragement, to the ides of the absorption jof Austria by Germany, he referred to the attitude of Czechoslvakin.
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