The Archive · 1938

Compromise Scheme

Negotiations Broken Off as Result of Fresh Incidents; Prague Conciliatory, Promising Full Inquiry; Fuehrer Sends Herr Henlein

Prague, "Sept. 8.

LTHOUGH German political circles in Berlin are not satisfied with them, the new nine-point proposals of the Czech Government have been accepted by the Sudeten Germans as a basis for negotiations. At the same time, however, the Sudetens have decided to break off negotiations because of recent incidents, especially that in which twó Sudeten deputies are alleged to have been brutally beaten up by the Czech police at Maerischostrau.

This incident shows, the Sudetens declare, that the Czech Government has not sufficient control of the situation to warrant negotiations being conducted in a necessary atmosphere of calm. A complaint has been addressed to Dr. Eduard Benes, the Czech President, as well as to Lord Runciman, the British "mediator." A meeting of Sudeten Germans has also protested against the premature publication of the Czech Government's proposals

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