"Is it not clear," he asked, "that the German conception of negotiation was that, at an almost instantaneous demand,' a Polish plenipotentiary should go to Berlin, where others have been before (cheers), and there receive a document of demands to be accepted in their entirety? The proper course, in our view, ig that {these proposals should have been put before Poland, who should have been given time to consider them and soy whether they infringed her vital Interests, which Germany had assured us previously she intended to respect.
"The Polish Ambassador saw Here von Ribbentrop Inst night and told him Poland was willing to negotiate fon on equal basis, Germany's reply to that was that German troops crossed the Polish frontier this morn-Ing at dawn and have since been re~ ported as bombing open towns. In these circumstances, there was only one course open to us (eud cheers).
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