WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY ?
Snt,—Re the article " Restraints on Parliament " in your issue of June loth in which it asks " whose is the responsibility for the failure to warn the country of the German preparations for war?" Surely many of us, who read our daily papers, can answer' this ; the Government under the leadership of the then Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, was constantly warned by Mr. Churchill of the rate at which these preparations for war were going on in Germany, but they were given no heed, so that when Mr. Chamberlain went to Munich he was quite unprepared to meet the German demands on Czecho- Slovakia, and an agreement was made, at the expense of that country, of which most of us were thoroughly ashamed, and all Mr. Chamberlain brought back was a statement by Herr Hitler, which now we know was not worth the paper it was written on, that Germany would never go to war with Eng'and. Alas! It was only too true what Mr. Churchill said in a subsequent speech. It would have been far better for Czecho-Slovakia had there been no Munich!
Sad is the thought, had we gone to Munich as well prepared as Germany was at the time, there probably would have been no war, and none of the dreadful sufferings and expense it has brought.—
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