As to the Opposition's charge that ler's assurances had been too believed, Herr Hitler had said that neither the Prime Minister nor himself had failed to be acutely conscious of the differences between beliefs and hopes.
The British Government has always acted with the knowledge that only with time could hopes be converted into sure beliefs.
Turning to Herr Hitler's actions, Lord Halifax said:—"In his actions until after Munich, a case could have been made for Herr Hitler having been true to his own principles—the exclusion of non-Germans from the Reich, and so on—principles which he has now overthrown.
"In the inclusion of 8,000,000 Czechs under the German Reich, he has sure: ty been untrue to his old philosophy Reuter.
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