ment's policy in the recent crisis, delivered after Sir John Simon's: statement.
"We have sustained a totally unmitigated defeat," Mr. Churchill, added, "and uncompromising strug-ler for peace as Mr. Chamberlain has been, the terms he brought back could easily have been higher.'
Czech Undertaking at Versailles The Czechs, Sir John Simon declar-fed in his statement for the Government, had undertaken in the Versailes 'Treaty to give the German, minorities equal " rights with: [Czechs themselves, and that Fegime would correspond to that in 'Switzerland. Lord Runciman, how-Jover, had stated that, until four years ago,' when Nazi Germany arose, the Sudetens had lived in a-situation of Replying to a question by Mr. Anthony Eden, (whether the development of the Munich Meeting would be the formation of a Four Power Pact), Sir John said that, on behalf of the Government, he' fully emphasized that it was not, and never had been, within the Government's contemplation to form a Four Power Pact in disregard of other states, great or small, Nor was it the Government's purpose to impose its will on Europe without communication with these! other states.
At the outset of his speech, Sir John said that one lesson they had learned perhaps he greatest was that: the mass of copie in every country were equally horrified. at the prospect of war, (Cheers),
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