The Archive · 1938

Mr. Chamberlain Replies

Rising after Mr, Attlee, in the general debate on the adjournment motion, Mr. Chamberlain answered the Opposition Leader regarding the Munich Agreement, He said that he regretted Mr. At-tice's attitude towards the Agreement and added that "it is not one of the characteristics of the totalitarian states that they are accustomed to foul their own nests."

The Prime Minister condemned the tendency to describe it as the defeat of democracy or the cause of law and order.

On the contrary, he said that he regarded the Pact as a step to carry out, by discussion between the democracies and totalitarian "tates, an agreed solution of a problem, to which the alternative appeared to be the use of force.

Instead of the use of force, the Agreement, had been carried out in an orderly manner,

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