The Archive · 1938

Consequences for Germany

Mr. Ramsay Muir, Vice-President of the Liberal Party, speaking in Hyde Park yesterday, said:

"The situation is so grave that Britain may be involved in war in a few days. Whatever happens now, we must preserve ce-operative action in the future. It is still possible that Herr Hitler may give way and decide to take what is offered to him.... The German people dread war as much as we do. If Hitler leads them into a war, is power will probably break down."

Mr. A. V. Alexander, M.P. for Hills-borough, Sheffeld, and former First Lord of the Admiralty in two Labour Governments, speaking at Willinborough, said, "Perhaps one of the most criminal aspects of the last two or three weeks' events has been London's failure to contact Moscow and Paris to reach a complete agreement and make clear to Hitler what they would do fu the face of a threat io dismember Czechoslovakia."—

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