It is quite likely that only the events of his present week will prove more important than those of last, and the world at large will await with considerable impatience and anxiety upon the developments which may be expected today. Generally speaking the situation in Europe gradually worsened during the week, and, when following the presentatiew of the latest Czech proposals an incident caused the Sudeten Germans to refuse to continue negotiations until given satisfaction, it looked as if already matters had been brought to the bursting point. Fortunate-y the compliance, which Prague has shown the latest concessions made to the Sudeten demands, was again evidenced in the readiness with which it agreed to deal with those responsible for this latest outrage, and on Friday it was announced that negotiations ould again be resumed. The proposals which the Czechoslovak government put forward during the week, despite the early announcements that they were unacceptable the Sudetens, were later taken as a basis for negotiations. They represented a very big departure from the original position, of the Czechoslovakian Government, and were uch that if the Sudeten Germans had persist-in the view that they provided no basis or further conversations they would have laced themselves in a very unfortunate light, n which their stubberness, which has marked heir behaviour throughout the whole of the controversy, would have been very greatly emphasized. Perhaps the most dramatic vent of the week was the publication of ım editorial article in "The Times" suggest-ug that the real solution of the whole natter would be the cession of the Sudeten weas of Czechoslovakia to the Reich. This article from which the British Government immediately disassociated itself, created satisfaction in Germany, dismay in Czechoslovakia, anxiety in France and considerable "embarrassment for Lord Runciman and his HOLDERS OF OUR TICKETS (which cost no more) have at their disposal a world-wide chain of our offices and interpreters. They are thus furnished with service en route as well as at the time of booking.
Why the article was ever published at uch a time has not yet been divulged, but t might have had the effect of torpedoing he whole of the British policy vis-a-vis of Czechoslovakia, and certainly tended to give some support to those who found British policy to be wavering to such an extent as o corroborate the German view that Britain would not in the ultimate event resort to inns. That view seems to have been adopted xy those who realized the enormous pressure
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