The Archive · 1938

Something to Ask From Reich Referring to the Munich Agreement

Lord Strabolgi said that Germany had received many great benefits.

"It is now our turn to ask for something in exchange." he declared.

"The policy of achievement should be a two-way policy.

"The appeasement that we most value is anything which helps our trade.

"We are a trading nation—so is Germany.

"In China, our interests as merchants are absolutely identical.

"The Anti-Comintern Pact, the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo triangle. and other similar fantasies, will pass. What will remain are mutual terests as trading nations. interests are threatened. time ripe to ask German easement on those lines? mans to jofn us, the other Nf Why shouldn't we ssk the Ger-Power signatories, and Russia in representations for the maintenance of the Open Door?

"That will do more than anything else to get rid of what Mr. Oswald Pirow called the physchology of war?

would create a revolution in men's minds, and. would certainly have an effect on Japa Lord Elibank, making use of his right to speak a second time, welcomed the Government's definite step to take a stand in the Far East.

He said that he thought Lord Plymouth's remarks with regard to the Nine Power Treaty marked a definite! step forward,—Reuter, Sixteen Die in Nova Sunken Condor May Be New Submarine for Scotia Mine

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