Mr. Chamberlain recalled how, in his broadcast to the nation in those anxious hours on the evening September 27 last he had said:
"I am myself a man of peace to the depth of my soul. Armed con-Aiet between nations is a nightmare to me, but if T were convinced that any tation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of Lits force, I should feel it must be resisted. Under such domination, life for the people who believed in Nberty would not be worth living.
At that time, "Mr. Chamberlain on, he did not feel that the oh Czechoslovakia necessarily involved the assumption of Germany's intention to dominate the world. felt he could not ask the country to accept new commitments for any thing less.
Again, at the time of President Roosevelt's New Year message, she had said that a ehatlenge of the kind mentioned by. the President—a demand to dominate one by one other nations—must, if it were made, be resisted, Mr. Chamberlain then explained to the House how the breach of assur tanees given to him personally by Herr Hitler had "completely destroy ed confidence, and compelled revision of the British attitude"
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