EVENTS SINCE MUNICH
ONE-SIDED AGREEMENTS
"MUST BE PREPARED"
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 19. The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Oliver Stanley, in a speech, said he did not think anyone could be other than disappointed by ■ the course- of events since the Munich agreement. . Germany had not been responsive during the past two months, and the " people of Britain did not want onesided promises and one-sided agreements. They were prepared to make ■ sacrifices for peace, and he thought others who .desired peace should do the same. . •
"I do not believe any useful purpose can be served by this country making further concessions unless they are met by concessions on the other side." , • '
Meantime, they had got to be prepared and combine this preparedness ' with a desire for agreement and the intention td seek-peace if peace were / ■ possible.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 13
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140EVENTS SINCE MUNICH Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 13
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