London, Sept. 22.
"The partition of Czechoslovakia under Anglo-French pressure is tantamount to a complete surrender by the Western Democracies to the Nazi threat of force," Mr. Winston Churchill, prominent Conservative leader and War-time statesman, declared in a press interview.
Mr. Churchill returned yesterday from France when he gave eager newspapermen his opinions. He told the press that he considered the convocation of Parliament a necessity in view of present circumstances. Frague's acceptance of the Anglo-French proposals, he said, was "a collapse that will not bring peace or safety to Britain and France. On the contrary, it will bring both countries into a position of ever-increasing weakness and danger for the neutral lization of Czechoslovakia alone means the liberation of 25 German divisions to threaten the western front."
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