The Archive · 1939

Conference Should Be Tried

If the conference he envisaged proved possible, he said, it should be tried, and if. as these discussions develop, it became clear that Herr Hitler meant to cling to his conquests the British Government, in his view, could quit the conference and resume the struggle-The world would then acknowledge that the responsibility for plunging mankind into the carnage and catastrophe of war rested entirely on the head of Herr Hitler.

"But any opportunity for a conference should be seized," he declared.

In conclusion Mr. Lloyd George urged the Government to push on with trade negotiations with Soviet Russia.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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