Dealing with peace aims, Chamberlain said:
"Our desire will be to establish a new Europe, not in the sense of re-@rawing its map according to the ideas of the victors, but a Europe with a new spirit in which the nations of Europe. will approach. difficulties with goodwill and mutual tolerance."
In such a Europe, he said, fear of aggression would have ceased to exist. Such adjustments of boundaries as would be necessary, he went on, would be thrashed out between neighbours sitting on equal terms at a round table, with the help of disinterested third parties, if they so desired.
In such a Europe, the Prime Minister stated, it would be recognized that there could be no lasting peace unless there was a full, constant flow of trade between the nations concerned, and each country would have the right to form its internal Government as long as it did not pursue an external policy injurious to its neighbours.
Armaments, the "Prime Minister sáid, would be gradually dropped as useless expense, except in so far as thèy were needed for preservation of internal law and order. This, continued Mr. Chamberlain, would take many years, and some machinery, capable of guiding this new Europe in the right direction, would be needed. Mr. Chamberlain hoped that Germany, animated by the new spirit, might be among the nations which Would participate in its operations—
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