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then said, "You are probably right. And that is a problem
 
we here have got to think more about. But I can't think
 
now what the solution may be. It makes more than ever clear
 
in my own mind the truth of what your President has said,
 
that one of the essentials to a lasting peace is freedom of
 
information."
 
     He then went on to say that we might take as a premise
 
the positive assurance that England had no intention of
 
destroying the German people, nor of impairing the integ-
 
rity of the German Reich. England however could not in
 
the first place consider the possibility of peace unless
 
Germany was forced to restore complete independence to the
 
Polish people, and reconstitute a free and independent
 
"Czechia". Germany must furthermore cease to be a con-
 
tinuing menace to the political and economic security of
 
the other smaller nations of Europe. 
 
     He continued by stating that Lord Halifax had given
 
me the full details of his own efforts to maintain peace by
 
making every possible concession to Germany during the past 
 
two years. He had been deceived. He had been lied to. It 
 
was clear that Hitler did not desire a peaceful Europe
 
founded upon a structure of justice and reason, but a
 
Europe dominated by German Hitlerism. England has been
 
forced into war as the last resort in order to preserve the 
 
institutions of liberty and of democracy which were 
 
threatened with extinction.
 
     Mr. Chamberlain said flatly that so long as the pres-
 
ent Government of Germany continued there could be no hope
 
of any real peace. You couId not envisage a peace between
 
the great powers of Europe, when no one anywhere in the
 
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