§ 45. Mr. Wyattasked the Prime Minister whether he will make a statement on his conversations with the Prime Minister of France at Chartwell on 23rd August.
§ The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)It passed off most agreeably, and has been superseded by subsequent events.
§ Mr. WyattWill the right hon. Gentleman say whether his conversations on that day had anything to do with the fact that at the end of July he refused to pledge more than one division to Europe and now he has pledged four? Does he realise that if he had kept the promises he made at Strasbourg in August, 1952, two years ago, he would have saved Europe a great deal of trouble and the Foreign Secretary a great deal of travelling?
§ The Prime MinisterI do not think that is historically at all a correct picture. As a matter of fact things have been settled very much on the lines which I myself advocated at Strasbourg.