Convocation of Parliament is now held certain. The extraordinary session will be called shortly, it is said, instead of starting as usual on November 1.
Reliable political informants believe Herr Hitler submitted proposals to Mr. Chamberlain for a settlement of the Sudeten problem on the lines formulated and recommended in the "Popolo d'Italia," Milan newspaper founded by Signor Benito Mussolini. This news organ printed an article and an open letter generally believed to have been written by Il Duce himself, The scheme submitted by the Fuehrer, it stated, comprises secession to the Reich of Czech border regions in which the Sudeten German populace is most dense, and the grant of autonomous administration on a cantonal system within the framework of the Czech State, to those districts where the German population is represented in a smaller proportion.
Italy is asserted to have promised io guarantee the neutrality of a Czechoslovakia converted to this regime. Germany, France and Great Britain are said to have been proposed às ce-guarantors.—Havas.
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