While listening to him I could not help thinking that however poor may be the opinion which my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Mr. D. Grenfell) has of the foreign policy of the Government, if he had the opportunity of consulting some of those in Europe who have seen the part which this country has played in the Austrian Crisis, in the Yugoslav 292 crisis, in the Saar crisis—I am very far from saying that he would be satisfied, but I think perhaps he would be a little more generous in his appreciation.

When the Austrian Crisis first broke upon the world there was a great movement in France to form a National Government, but since then politicians of the right, M. Flandin and M. Laval, have been encouraged by the Prime Minister's speeches to come forward, and M. Laval has declared that France must "imitate the realism of Mr. Chamberlain," with the result that the movement for forming a National Government there has been checked.

It has been suggested that this expansion scheme was a sudden decision which was come to in a fit of panic - that is the phrase used by a newspaper - as a result, partly of pressure from the House of Commons and partly of the Austrian Crisis.

The Prime Minister at the time of the Austrian Crisis did not mention Czechoslovakia, because, he said, he had pledges from the German Government that they would abide strictly by the arbitration treaty.