Mr. Chamberlain Deplores German Breach Of Munich Accord; Guarantee Cancelled London, Mar. 15.
'ROWDED and expectant, the House of Commons listened this afternoon to the statement made by the Prime Minister, Mr.
Neville Chamberlain, on events in Central Europe.
The Prime Minister entered the House to make his statement just before the end of question time, amidst ministerial cheers and derisive cries from the Opposition.
The Government, he said, having failed in its recent endeavour to achieve a guarantee agreement with other Governments represented in the Munich conference, now regarded its guarantee obligations as no longer binding.
After a recital of facts known to him, Mr. Chamberlain announced that the guarantee to Czechoslovakia given last October had lapsed through the disintegration of that country; the Bank of England had been instructed to suspend any further payments under the credit of £10,000.000 advanced to the Czechoslovak Government; and that the visit of Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, and Mr. R., S. Hudson, Secretary of Overseas Trade, to Berlin would not take place.
Min, Anthony Eden, former Foreign and Liberal Opposition cheered when he rose and said that
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