WAR INCREDIBLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1938, Page 8

WAR INCREDIBLE

MR CHAMBERLAIN URGES SETTLEMENT BY REASON Agreement Largely Obtained on Issues at Stake BRITAIN READY TO SEE THAT PROMISES ARE CARRIED OUT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.40 p.m.) LONDON, September 27. jVfi- chamberlain, in the course of statements at midnight and early in the morning, said: “I have read the speech by Herr Hitler and appreciate his references to my efforts to save peace. I cannot abandon those efforts, since it seems to me incredible that ■the peoples of Europe, who do not want to war against one another, should be plunged into a bloody struggle over a question on which agreement has already been largely obtained. "It is evident that the Chancellor has no faith that the promises made will be carried out. These promises were not made to the German Government direct, but to the British and French Governments in the first instance. “Speaking for the British Government, we regard ourselves as morally responsible for seeing that the promises are carried out fairly and fully. We are prepared to undertake that they shall be so carried out, with reasonable promptitude, provided the German Government agrees to a settlement by discussion and not by force. I trust that the Chancellor will not reject this proposal, which is made in the same spirit of friendliness as that in which 1 was received in Germany and which, if it is accepted, will satisfy the German desire for the union of the Sudeten Germans with the Reich, without the shedding of blood in any part of Europe.”