Referring to the Cpzcsition's sta ment that Mr. Chamberla at Munich was a personal policy, Lord Halifax said that, if by that it was meant that Mr. Chamberlain's policy was one to which he hed given every ounce of energy, imagination and resolution which he possessed, "I should not disagree.
"But if it is suggested," Lord Hal fax declared, "that it was a policy pursued without the fullest co-opera tion of myself as Foreign Secretary and of every member of His Majesty's Government, then I must take leave to oppose a most emphatic contradic tion" (loud ministerial cheers, in which members in the Commons Gallery joined).
There were two purposes, Lord Halifax stated, to the Munich settlement.
The first was to effect a settlement as fair as might be, in all the extremely difficult circumstances existing at that time, of a problem which was a real one, and the treatment of which was an urgent necessity, if the peace of Europe were to be preserved.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.