OPPORTUNITY MISSED BY HITLER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 8

OPPORTUNITY MISSED BY HITLER

SIR NEVILE HENDERSON'S

DISCLOSURE

Speaking at Ipswich, reports the London "Times" of November 19, Sir Nevile Henderson, former Ambassador in Berlin, said: "I think the person who regretted Munich more than anyone else was Hitler. He thought he had missed an opportunity, and I think he did." Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Sir Nevile said, tried to do his utmost regardless of himself to bring Europe back to recognition and rectification of past errors. It was a single-hande"d effort on the part of a man who was over 70. "I do not know whether the critics of Mr. Chamberlain realise that on September 28, 1938, we did not possess any Spitfires, we had only one or two experimental Hurricanes, and only seven modern A.A. guns for the defence of London, out of 400 estimated as the minimum necessary. Germany' could have dropped 2000 bombs a day on London and we could have given no reply. I would like to ask Mr. Chamberlain's critics, realising what cards he held in his hand, what they could have done either to avert or delay war. Mr. Chamberlain failed in his immediate objective, but to the end of his life he did not have one twinge of conscience."