Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Liberal leader, expressed gratitude for one or two assurances in Mr. Chamber: lain's "very important speech," but he disagreed with the Prime Minister that the only alternative to Munich was war.
On the contrary, he said, "it was the abandonment of the League policy which brought us to the verge of war."
Sir Archibald said that he feared, if this policy persisted, it would be very difficult to avoid war in the future.
The Premier, he went on, had fired a powder magazine which had blown Czechoslovakia to pieces, and had not finished exploding yet.
"The Munich frontiers won't last as long as the Versailles frontier: he declared "There seems no reason to doubt that Herr Hitler means to move to Memelland in the north, and to the Ukraine in the south."
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