Mr. Chamberlain rebuked Mr. Attlee for his remarks regarding the recent Balkan tour of Dr. Walther Funk, the German Minister of Economics.
He showed that closer economic relations between Germany and the countries of south-eastern Europe, based on the exchange of raw materials for manufactured products, were natural and beneficial develop. ments to be welcomed by Great Britain, which had no desire to obtain exclusive possession of the markets of south-eastern Europe.
There was room there, the Prime Minister continued, for both Great Britain and Germany and, surely, no necessity for economic warfare.
What they were witnessing in Europe today, Mr. Chamberlain reminded the House, was readjustment of the frontiers drawn at Versailles, by peaceful means instead of by force.
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