Berlin, Sept, 2.
According to well-informed circles here, the German Government now' devoting its efforts to obtain 4 plebiscite under international con~ trol in the Sudeten districts to allow Germans living in these districts to decide their own fate freely. th is understood that Herr Hitler trid Herr Konrad Henlein will di cuss a plan to this effect toda; The German Government will probably endeavour to convin London' and Paris that such a plebiscite would be the sole means of safeguarding pence in Europe—lavas, German Envoy Opens Issue in Moscow Moscow, Aug, 30.
{In the event of a Czecho-German armed conflict, France would prob ably assist the Czechs "and Soviet Russia would then follow France, the Soviet Foreign Commissar, Maxim Litvinov, told the German Ambassador here in a recent private conversation, it was conirm@d today, 'The Relch's envoy, Council Friedrich von der Schulenburg, approached Litvinov on August' 22, It was feurmed today, and asked him privately what would be the Soviet auitude, Upon hearing the Russian Matesman's reply, he added that "the dangerous attitude of some Czech military elements could compel Germany" to intervene and the Reich could not: then" be, accused of unprovoked aggression.
All this took place ina private conversation between Mf, Livitaoy and Count von der Schuienburg, it is
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