Butler spent most of the Sudeten Crisis at a meeting in Geneva about reform of the Covenant of the League of Nations. He strongly approved of Chamberlain's trip to Berchtesgaden (16 September), even if it meant sacrificing Czechoslovakia in the interests of peace. Butler returned to Britain to make the winding-up speech for the Government in the Parliamentary Debate on the Munich Agreement on 5 October. After Churchill had spoken, Butler said that war solved nothing and that it was better to "settle our differences with Germany by consultation". However, he did not directly defend the Munich settlement; the motion was to support the avoidance of war and the pursuit of lasting peace.