London, Sept. 21. contrast with the relief expressed in the press during the past few days, the papers here this morning commented angrily on the Czech situation.
"While the urgent importance is plain of -rescuing issues of peace and war from the perils of an atmosphere heavy with threat and passion and bring them to a test of constructive negotiations, Czechoslovakia cannot be expected to take her final decision without full and precise knowledge of what is asked from her and offered her," stated "The Times."
"Least of all has Germany any right or cause at this moment to intervene with truculent demands for haste.
It is in the interest of the whole of Europe that there shall be no sabotage of Mr. Chamberlain's mission, "England, in the present hour, is perhaps less rattled, less feverish, and more composed than any other country in the world," the journal added. "The mass of her population is as little susceptible to intimidation as it Was in 1914. It is ready now, as it was then, to face any peril in a just cause, If such a call should come from Germany or any country, it would find British spirit as resolute, as reckless of the consequences, and as invincible. The British people are emphatically not prepared to find occasion for a world war in a quarrel in which they are not convinced. that one party has all the rights. Today, it becomes the French as well as the British policy to find, if it.was yet to be found, a way of agreement in place of a way of blind and timid resistance. This policy may fail or Succeed, but it will leave the British People in one mind and conscience, whatever the future may Hold."
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