The Archive · 1939

Nothing to Regret

"For myxelt." the Prime Minister declared, in ooking back T see nothing to regret, nor do 1 see any Fenton to suppose that another course would have een preferable, "War today ix so terrible! in ite effects on those who take part in it, and It brings so much loss and suffer= ing to those who stand aside and watch the combat from the ring, that ought never to be chowed to begin "unless every practicable and honour.

step hax been taken to prevent it. "That_has. been the view of this Government from the beginning and the Munich Agreement was only an Incident in a consistent and unwaver~ ing policy of pence."

He would even go further, than that, Mr. Chambericin declared. "He would say that any preservation of peace last September was only made possible by. the events which pre coded it. These events included an exchange of letters between himself and Signor Mussolini in the summer of 1937 and the conclusion of the Anglosttallan Agreement in February. 1986.

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