In the afternoon, the British ministers then discussed among themselves the possibility of Britain herself participating in a guarantee of neutrality for Czechoslovakia. Apparently the majority of British statesmen voiced their readiness for London to shoulder such a new responsibility on the Continent "as a necessity for European peace."
Viscount Runciman, the informal arbitrator" in Prague who is now here, and Mr. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, his right-hand man, entered No. 10 Downing Street last night while the Anglo-French consultations were in progress.
A large crowd was gathered in Whitehall until a very late hour. Earlier in the day, several groups kept shouting, "Stand by the Czechs!" but were prevented by the police from entering (Downing Street The Congress of the British Communist Party at Birmingham voted a resolution accusing the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, of "attempts to deal with Herr Hitler at the expense of Czechoslovhkia," and "called on the British people to rise in protest against the proposed second visit to Herr Hitler, when Mr. Chamberlain hopes he will cement his alliance with Fascism."
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