On the basis of this attitude, he said, Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made his speech at Lanark on August 24.
Further events at' the end of August marked the increasing ser-onsness of the situation.
The French Government, the Prime Minister declared, in the light of the movement of German divisions, took precautionary measures, including the Culling up of reserves and the man-ring of the Maginot line, Sir Nevile Henderson gave strong. personal warning to the Secretary of State, at the Wilhelmstrasse, regard~ ing the possible attitude of Great 0 this 1 replied that he must distinguish between a threat against Germany and a warning, and that he might justly complain if he were al-flowed to think that Great Britain, {in no circumstances, would go to war with Germany-
"So strongly did I get the impression that Herr Hitler was contemplating an immediate invasion' lof Czechoslovakia, that I ased him' whether he had allowed me to travel all that way, since I was evidently wasting my' time, herr Hitler stid that, if 1 could Jassure him then and there that the British Government accepted the. principle of self-determination, he
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