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Actually Neville Chamberlain had spent three hours with Adolf Hitler, still trying to act as broker for Peace, studying newly drafted documents and a map freshly traced in red ink (see cut). This was the Hitler Map, the fatal red-inking of his Godesberg Demands. But there was also a Chamberlain Map, showing what Czechoslovakia, Britain and France remained ready this week to give Germany. A German communique announced that the Godesberg Negotiations had been "friendly," and Neville Chamberlain on arriving in London said: "I trust that all concerned will continue their efforts to solve the Czechoslovak problem peacefully, because...
October 1st. The reported Chamberlain Map and the Hitler Map, superimposed upon each other (see cut, p. 14), show at a glance the geographical difference between the Berchtesgaden Plan and the Godesberg Demands. Either would give Germany all the most important fortifications of "the Czech Maginot Line," which encircles the West end of Czechoslovakia. To sanction either would mean that Britain and France had scrapped League and other post-War treaty obligations which have been supposed to safeguard the "territorial integrity" of Czechoslovakia...
Meanwhile, Mr. Chamberlain had sent the Godesberg Demands, complete with map, to the Czechoslovak Government "without comment." Louder than words spoke the simultaneous mobilization in France of some 1,000,000 men. And the British Home Fleet, in the North Sea, fully provisioned for battle. In London the first few anti-air raid trenches were dug in the parks (see p. 17). Everyone was being "measured for gas masks," and hospitals in the London area were warned to expect, during the first three weeks of war, 30,000 casualties...
...While I sympathize with all the nationalities of Czechoslovakia, I am speaking here only for the oppressed Germans ..." Herr Hitler went on, thus putting a damper on rumors that he had faced Mr. Chamberlain with Polish and Hungarian claims as well as Germany's. "Upon the threats of Great Britain and France, Herr Benes finally admitted that the Sudetenland must be ceded to Germany," continued Hitler. "The play is now ended. . . . THE FINAL GERMAN DEMANDS CONTAIN ONLY WHAT BENES HAS ALREADY PROMISED...
...After German territory has gone to Germany, and each of the other terrorized peoples has decided where it wants to belong, Germany is even ready to guarantee the frontiers of the remaining Czech State. . . . When Mr. Chamberlain asked me to agree to have plebiscites not in all parts of Czechoslovakia but only in the German districts I GAVE IN ! I also agreed to a German-Czech commission to supervise the plebiscite. ... I would also have accepted international police control! It was all only the practical realization of what Benes had already promised...