The Prime Minister's popularity in Germany was not due to any feeling Jamong the Germans that Herr Hitler was gaining territory, of achieving his purpose, but it was due to the gratitude of the ordinary people that Mr. Chamberlain was striving for a peaceful. solution.
"We are all deeply, conscious that /War has been avoided," Sir John went Jon, "and that Herr Hitler has again achieved the substance of his mediate, declared aim without After referring to the fortitude and calm with which the Czechs faced their destiny, Sir John said that there was a dreadful choice before them, but it was a choice between cadi portion of their. territory which Britain and France advised, and exposing their State to unlimited in-Yasion, and possible destruction.
Not Peace at Any Price think that it is not without significance to Germany that no section the population, through cowardice, indicated that "they were prepared for peace at any price and in every circumstance.
"I¢ the totalitarian states imagined, jas they may have done, that the democracies, "under such conditions, could not unite, they have been dis-
"While I admit that the solution obtained is open to all sorts of chal longes and criticisms," Sir John went fon, "let us recognize the real char-facter of the problem, and how seldom history it' has been resolved without war.
"It is true that the Munich Agreement was reached under the pressure lof the alternative of instant invasion, [but is that reason enough for reject ting the Agreement, and preferring that, Burope should be plunged into not think so."
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