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German people be "taught a lesson". That could only be
 
accomplished through a crushing military defeat imposed
 
upon the German people, with the subsequent imposition of
 
a peace which would make it impossible for the German
 
people for a hundred years to have any illusion as to
 
where the mastery in Europe lay.
 
     The only remark I made during the evening was at this
 
point. I asked whether Mr. Stanley felt that the defeat
 
of Germany in 1918, and the terms of the peace then imposed
 
had really "taught" the German people any lesson. I won-
 
dered whether an imposed peace could, by its very nature,
 
teach any very lasting lesson. His reply was that the
 
lesson of 1918, had hardly been a lesson at all that
 
Germany had not been devastated during the Great War, and
 
that the German people had never directly suffered the
 
effects of the war, as had the French and Belgians; and
 
that the only kind of a lesson that  would ever teach the
 
Germans was the lesson of military might and domination on
 
German territory.
 
      Mr. Eden's singular- and only- addition to my infor-
 
mation, on this occasion was the very positive assertion
 
that the real reason why Hitler had occupied Bohemia and
 
Moravia in March, 1939, was because the authorities in
 
Prague were still permitting foreign newspapers to be sold
 
freely in Czechoslovak territory.
 
     Lord Snell made a very sincere, and really moving,
 
reference to why the Labor Party was supporting the Chamber-
 
lain cabinet in its war policy. He said that he and his
 
colleagues in the Labor Party felt that if Hitlerism were
 
to continue unchecked all of those human values in which
 
they so earnestly believed the liberty of conscience, of
 
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