The Archive · 1938

Labour Censure Motion Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Labour

Member for Wakefield, submitting a [Labour motion of censure of the Gov-lornment's foreign policy, declared that while the House was profoundly relieved that war had been averted for the time being, "it cannot ap-\g|prove the policy which led to the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia under the {threat of armed force, the humiliation Jot our country, and its exposure to rave dangers."

Mr. Winston Churchill the House of Commons this afternoon by Mr. Winston Churchill.

"We are in the presence of a dis aster of first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France,' Ihe said. "The system of alliances in [Central Europe upon which France relied for safety has been cut away."

He asserted that the Prime Minister! had to be content with what he obtained from Herr Hitler.

"He expressed the conviction that} Czechoslovakia could have obtained better conditions if she had been warned last summer that she must not rely on any assistance from the great Western Powers.

Mr, Churchill then described the tragedy of Czechoslovakia's fate.

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