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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...
...most the Demands would bring in another 1,000 square miles. However, according to official London sources this week, the Plan was to have been carried out over a period of "about six months." The Demands insisted that by October 1-precisely eight days after the last meeting at Godesberg -all Czechoslovak armed forces, gendarmerie, police, customs officials and frontier guards be withdrawn from the areas which Dictator Hitler red-inked. While neither German nor Czechoslovak armed forces would be permitted in plebiscite areas while the voting took place on or before November 25, according to the Demands, the ballot...
...political prisoners of this race out of its jails. Although many Czechoslovaks have counted on being able to dynamite their $250,000,000 fortifications in the Sudeten area and industrial plants worth much more before handing the area over to Germany under the Berchtesgaden Plan, the Godesberg Demands harshly required that evacuated territory be handed over in its present condition...
...Czechoslovak Government, after studying the Godesberg Demands, rejected them to the extent of saying it would refuse to cede the Sudetenland under Hitler's new terms, but not to the extent of refusing further negotiation. It did not take back the Czechoslovak acceptance of the Berchtesgaden Plan. According to the Polish and Hungarian Governments, the Czechoslovak Government informed them this week that it was also ready to negotiate their claims to parts 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...