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After referring to the recall of the British Ambassador (Sir Nevie Henderson) from Berlin, Lord Halifax said:—
"I think we can claim that we left the German Government in no doubt as to the attitude of His Majesty's Government, Although I do not cherish any exaggerated hopes of what may be the effect, it was right that protests should have been registered.
Lord Halifax then referred to German apologists trying to justify the action of the Reich by reference to the past history of the British Empire.
He said that the principle on which the British Empire was conducted was self-government, and "wherever we hēve been, we have left a trail of freedom and self-government. Our record has nothing in common with the suppression of liberty.
"True, we always recognized that Germany was more interested in South-Eastern Europe than we ourselves, but the position is entirely changed when we are confronted with arbitrary suppression of a sover reign State by armed force, and the violation of the elementary rules of international conduct."
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