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...break off negotiations looking to a peaceful, fair and constructive settlement of the questions at issue." These negotiations were begun fortnight ago at Berchtesgaden, after months of private exchanges between the four European chiefs, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, Edouard Daladier and Benito Mussolini. They were continued last week at Godesberg, the picturesque Rhineland spa. There the Berchtesgaden Plan, already "accepted unconditionally" by Czechoslovakia, was evaporated last week from cold Peace water into the hissing War steam of Godesberg Demands unexpectedly made by Adolf Hitler...
...Chamberlain arrived in Godesberg last week to find Herr Hitler evidently 14 convinced that there might be no limit to the concessions, threatening, via his controlled German press, to hurl his army against Czechoslovakia "within 48 hours," unless Prague immediately went beyond the concessions already made. At this the Prime Minister promptly balked. With the River Rhine running between the Petersberg, hotel of the Britons, and the Dreesen, a favorite hostel at which the German Dictator was stopping for the 68th time, Neville Chamberlain began exchanging stiff, formal diplomatic notes with the Führer-the kind of thing that...
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...