The Archive · 1938

Nature of Rumours

London, July 23.

Following conversations between Lord Halifax, Foreign Minister, and M. Georges Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, yesterday, and a visit paid by Dr. Herbert von Dircksen, German Ambassador in London, to Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, a crop of rumours has arisen.

It is suggested that Germany has mooted the idea that Germany, Ital: France and Great Britain might dis cuss the Czech problem, and that Germai would guarantee Czechoslovakia's integrity for five years if the Czech problem were settled.

Other rumours suggested that Germany was willing to discuss the qualitative limitation of air armaments, Authoritative British quarters, however, describe all these rumours as "highly fantastic."—Reuter.

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