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UNITED KINGDOM COMMENT
At the Foreign Office press conference on 7th December the spokesman said:-
"Mr. Khrushchev's theme, on the origins of the war, seems to be much the same as the one put forward by Mr. Molotov at the Conference of Berlin. It was dealt with at the time both by Mr. Eden, as he then was, and by Mr. Dulles. I don't think I have anything to add to what they said then.
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Perhaps I could remind you of what it was.
"Mr. Eden said, on 3rd February, 1954: 'I must say, in relation to historical research, that it is really fantastic to suppose that Mr. Chamberlain was in any way responsible for Hitler's attack on Poland, to which country Britain had given a guarantee. The Government of which Mr. Chamberlain was the head gave the guarantee which resulted in the declaration of war by Great Britain and by France on September 3, 1939.'
"Mr. Dulles said, the day before: 'I have in my hands a speech which the Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs made in Moscow on October 31, 1939. . . .' Mr. Dulles quoted from it various passages, including the following sentence, It is not only senseless but criminal to wage such a war-a war for the destruction of Hitlerism camouflaged as a fight for democracy.'
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