Plan as Basis Czech Vital Interests Declared Safeguarded; Bitter Press Comment Prague, Sept. 20.
The Czech Government has decided io accept the Franco-British recommendations, it is learned on reliable authority, They will however, ask for a more concrete explanation so as to be able to give a detailed reply.
The meeting of the Czech Cabinet ended at 12.45 o'clock this morning. Tt will meet again at 11 a.m. today. clares one Prague newspaper, can accept the "humiliating Anglo-French proposals." Other journals say in effect: "Let us rather have war and go down fighting."
Enquiries from usually well-informed quarters in London suggest that the talk between Mu Neville Chamberlain and Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden last week was not confined only to the immediate dificult ties over Czechoslovakia.
Other aspects of the European situation, it is asserted, were raised, and there is 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.
The Cabinet was called yesterday immediately after the British and French Ministers called at the Palace, and informed the President, Dr. Eduard Benes, of the recommendations of their Governments. The Cabinet went into session under the presidency of Dr, Benes.
It was believed that the ministers were faced with the difficult choice of the dismemberment of an important section of their country, or possible extinction.
It was feared here that a refusal to agree to the Anglo-French recommendations might mean disaster, as nobody really believes that Soviet aid would save the issue.—Reuter.
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