Replying to Communist allegations that Munich was capitulation, M. Daladier said that day and night for weeks, nobody made more tenacious efforts to save what could be saved at the same time as peace.
He declined, however, to throw France into war, and sacrifice another million or two French peasants, (cheers), Following ah interruption by mein-bers of the Communist Party, M. Daladier criedi—
"Do you think you render service to your country by hurling sarcasms against British policy, and against the Grand Old Man who devoted himself to saving peace?" (cheers).
M. Daladier said that he favoured closer relations with other peoples, but the defence of France depended frst and foremost on Frenchmen.
He wanted peace with Germany, but peace: was not a question of speeches and demonstrations, but a question of work. There could be no porce beyond their frontiers without peace at home.
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