He concluded: "Czechoslovakia has now been occupied in the same manner as it, would have been occupied had there been no Munich conference.
This incident, he held, was simply Jone of a sequence of crisis (0 which Europe had been treated, and which would be repeated on suitable occasions for some time to come because the British Government had not been seized with the real significance of the events of the last few years in Europe.
He agreed that little could have been done since Munich, but charged the Government with failure to cope with the situation before Munich.
The ministers, he said, had stated last October that under the Munich agreement, Czechoslovakia would enjoy greater security than before and asserted that the Prime Minis ters credulity passed all understand: Ing. "The fact was, he continued, that they were now entering upon period fraught with immediate and terrible dangers to all. There was no security left in Europe.
Smaller nations, said Mr. Grenfell, were in a state of apprehension at fear, and even large nations were not free from it. He asked the Government to seek, before it was too Tate to assemble for ce-operative the people living in it and to main tain "peace. Germany. cept 3. prolongati tion and decided to inter restore order."
Terms of Protectorate The following are the provisions of the Herr Hitler's decree!
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