"I ha no doubt whatever," Lord Halifax went on, "that the Government were right, in the light of all the information available to them, to take the course they did" (cheers).
The second purpose of the Munich settlement was to bring more secur ity for the people of Europe, on the basis of freely accepted consultations, as @ means whereby all future differences might be adjusted.
Lord Halifax recoked that Herr Hitler, last September, had appealed to the principle of self-determination. That principle had now been rudely contradicted by a sequence of acts which denied the very right on which the German attitude was based.
Whatever was true about the treatment of 250,000 Germans, it was impossible to believe that it could only be remedied by the subjugation of 8,000,000 Czechs.
"Are we to demanded Lord Halifax, "t erman policy has entered a new phase, directed at the domination of non-Germen peoples?
"Such grave questions are being asked in all parts of the world.
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