Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office. – in the House of Commons at on 21 February 1940.
Mr. Woodburn asked:
the Prime Minister whether the Government will now make categorical declarations that Britain has no ulterior and undeclared purpose in the present war; seeks no territorial or material gain and has no intention in any way to impose any dismemberment on Germany; and that the sole objective to be achieved is to secure by reasonable guarantees, of which the withdrawal of Germany from armed occupation of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, would be an earnest, that Germany had renounced all intentions of armed expansion and was prepared to take her place in the councils of the nations as a free partner ready to co-operate in the steps necessary to secure a peaceful solution of economic, territorial and racial problems making for enmity and war, and for the safeguarding of all peoples against aggression?