The Archive · 1938

German View of Declaration

Berlin, Sept. 27.

Confirming the reception of the joMlicial declaration from the British Foreign Office that in the event of a [German attack on Czechoslovakia, France would be obliged to rush to her ald and that Great Britain as well as Soviet Russia would stand by the side of France, it was declared in informed circles here last night that an unprovoked attack on Czechoslovakia will never come into question, In view of the fact that the cession of the Sudeten German territory Proposed in the British declaration also had the sanction of the British, French and Czechoslovak Governments, the Reichs Government regards this as a binding promise which formed the basis for the Godesberg conferences. If this promise is not fulfilled, there can no longer be a possibility of an unprovoked attack.

Fulfilment of the demands in the German memorandum within the stifpulated period is, it is declared, merely a necessary consequence of the former negotiations which were conducted for the purpose of arriving. at a peaceful solution of the Sudeten German problem. Failure to full the promise given to Germany would, create a situation clearly indicated by. the Fuehrer in his speech made last German Claims Fair, But Methods Wrong Washington, Sept. 27.

Senator Borah, Republican of Idaho, said today that German claims to the Sudeten region were fair but Jexpressed disapproval of Chancellor Adolf Hitler's method of achieving his. goal.

Senator Borah voiced condemnation lof the Versailles treaty and referred to a speech he made against the treaty in 1921 in which he predicted that the treaty terms would bring Jonly trouble.

He declared that Germans in Czechoslovakia morally belong to Germany and that Hungarian areas in both Czechoslovakia and Rumania morally belong to Hungary.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said today that she 1s stumped by the prob-Jem of what women can do to prevent war. Many women and men, she said, have written urging her to announce some specific action that women may undertake to prevent "I wish some one would give me formula," she sald—United Press.

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