When the Premier entered the building, all present, including foreign diplomats, ross and cheered, and after dinner, when he got up to speak, the ovation lasted several minutes.
The Prime Minister remarked that the demonstration expressed "the spirit of England thankful to have been spared the ordeal which came so close, but ready now to answer any call which the country may make in order that it may face the future with equanimity."
He said that he would like to get rid of the idea that there was a clash at Munich between the different systems of government, and that the result was a victory for one side or another, "The fact that four Powers were able to sit down and agree, without quarrelling, upon the main outlines of the settlement of one of the most thorny and dangerous problems of cur time has encouraged us to think that it must be possible for such Powers to agree on other things also—~ not only on preventing disasters, but on creating happiness and prosperity by mutual aid.
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