The Archive · 1938

Road to German Friendship

He said he believed that Britain had at last got on the road to friendly relations with Germany.

Nobody in the Government, Sir Thomas Inskip stated, believed that peace could be achieved by a single stroke of the pen. There would be jolts and jars to the chariot of peace, but if they could pursue the road with good tempers they might at last arrive at journey's end, The influence of peace, the Minister added, was infectious, and there was in'all parts of the world at present willingness to agree on a policy of mediation, which three months ago would have seemed impossible.

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