They capitulated, Lord Halifax declared, "in order to save their people from the horrors of swift and destructive enol bombardment."
In these circumstances, the Foreign Secretary continued, His Majesty's Government thought it fit immediately to take certain action.
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Lord Halifax then referred to the immediate suspension of the proposed visit of Mr. Oliver Stanley (President of the Board of Trade) and Mr. R. S. Hudson (Secretary for Overseas Trade) to Berlin, "by means of which it had been hoped that His Majesty's Government could directly intervene in those unofficial contacts of industrial representatives that were taking place at that very moment."
"We felt, and now feel," Lord Halifax went en, "that, in the circumstances, any development of our efforts in that direction was frankly out of the question, and thet, and many other things, had to be and must remain indefinitely postponed."
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