London, Sept. 17.
Whatever may be the final issue in the present crisis the conference at Berchtesgaden has already produced one solid, momentous result, wherefore Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Herr Adolf Hitler each deserves his share of credit, declares the "Daily Telegraph" today, The meeting set a pause to the headlong impetuosity of events and gained an invaluable respite for reflection, negotiation and sane counsel, the paper says.
The "Telegraph" deprecates the dissemination of ill-formed rumour and untimely disclosures, and adds that there is no question of the gov-
Paris, Sept. 17.
Various views were expressed in the press here this morning regarding the European crisis.
M. Leon Blum, former Premier and lender of the Socialist Party, writing in his paper "Lo Populaire" declared that the fundamental position taken by Herr Hitler may well be an extreme position excluding the possibility of a conciliation, since the Fuehrer notably seemed to accept and face in advance all the consequences of his resolution. However, nothing should discourage the efforts of peace-loving nations to preserve peace by justice, he added.
Writing in the leftist organ "L'Homme Libre," M. Ludovic-Oscar Frossard, former Minister, stressed that one must have courage now to face the truth: not many chances remain for a peaceful and honourable settlement of the Sudeten question. In three days things have changed from autonomy to a plebiscite and again to annexation. "The only thing granted us is the possibility of amicably fixing a new frontier between Germany and Czechoslovakia.
(Continued on page 8) diplomats in the vehicle which was then allowed to proceed, see The German Minister in Prague, Dr. Ernst Eisenlohr, is returning to Germany. The Czech Minister to Germany, Dr. Vojtech Mastny, is already in Prague.
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