The Archive · 1938

Franco-British Scheme

Czech Cabinet Expected to Consent Eventually To Accept Plan as Basis of Parley London, Sept. 20.

\ACED with the choice of a dismemberment of an important section of the country or possible extinction, the Czech Cabinet deliberated over the Anglo-French recommendations all last night and again this morning without being able to reach a decision, Well-informed circles both here- and in Paris, however, believe that the recommendations will be eventually accepted as a basis for negotiations, During the course of this morning's session of the Czech Cabinet, over which Dr. Eduard Benes, the President, presided, telephonic contacts are understood to have been made with Paris and London. The Anglo-French recommendations have aroused considerable opposition among the left-wing press in Czechoslovakia and British Labour ranks.

No Czechoslovak Government, de-dures one Prague newspaper,' can accept the "humiliating Anglo-French Other journals say in New Clashes on Frontiers go down fighting'

Enquiries from usually well-me formed quarters in London suggest that the talk between Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Herr Hitler at Be ehtesgaden last week was not confined only to the {fnmediate dificult les over Czechoslovakia, Other aspects of the European situation, it is asserted, were raised, and there ig a possibility that if the present position Is eased by Anglo-French intervention, such a settlement may be followed by a conference aiming at cleaning up by joint collaboration between the Powers other European sores, notably the Spanish question,

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