"T am in a position to inform the House that, according to arrangements made between the - British and French governments, the French Ambassador in Berlin' is at this! moment making a similar demarche, accompanied also by a definite time-limit, "The House has been made aware of our plans and, as 1 have said, we are ready.
"It is a sad day for all of us, but for none is it sadder than for me. Everything 1 have worked for, hoped. for and believed in during my public life has crashed into ruins. The only thing left for me is to devote what powers I have for vie~ tory. I cannot tell what part I may. bbe allowed to play, but T trust may' live to see the day when Hitlerism Mr. Winston Churchill, _newly-created First Lord of the Admiralty, sald:—"In this hour, it 1s @ console tion to recall and dwell upon our re peated efforts for peace. They have all been ill-starred, but they have all been faithful and sincere, and that is of the highest moral value—and rot only of moral, but of practical value at the present time, because of the whole-hearted concurrence of scores of millions of men and women whose ce-operation is_indispensable, fand whose comradeship and brother: hood Is indispensable, "That is the only foundation upon. which the {rials and tribulations of nuodern war can be endured and surmounted.
"Outside, the storms of wat may blow, and fands may be lashed with the fury of its gales, but im our hearts, on this Sunday morning, there is peace. Our hands may be active, but our consciences are at rest.
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