"If we can find some peaceful solution to the Sudeten question," the Premier went on, "I should myself think that the way was open once again for a further effort for general appeasement—appeasement which cannot be attained until we can be satisfied that no major cause for dispute or difference remains unsettled "When Herr Hitler made an offer of a Naval Treaty in which Germany was to be restricted to an agreed level bearing a fixed ratio to the) British Fleet, he made a notable gesture of the most practical kind in the direction of peace, "The value of that gesture, it seems to me, has not been fully appreciated as tending towards a general appeasement."
"But there the Treaty stands as a demonstration that it is possible for Germany and ourselves to agree upon matters which are vital to Both of us.
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