The Archive · 1938

British Preferences Outlined

Apparently Britain - favours a scheme whereby the rectifications of frontier lines would take place through direct negotiations under the control of an international committee, rather than a plan whereby a plebiscite would be held in the Sudeten regions, as a plebiscite would entail longer procedure, it is asserted here. In the course of parleys, the British statesmen upon French insistence, that should be one of the Powers to jointly guarantee the integrity of the new Czech state, it is further learned.

This joint guarantee of neutrality would be analogous to the Locarno Pact and' would be signed by all the states bordering upon Czechoslovakia. Germany, Poland, Hungary, Rumania would form this group. France, Great Britain and Italy would be the other Powers joining the guarantors, Should present unconfirmed re ports find substance in fact, observers declare, it would mean that the Czechs would have to renounce their with France and Soviet Ordered Home German Troops Entraining

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