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...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...
...letters, code dispatches and contacts by personal intermediaries which have taken place between The Four Chiefs has made it increasingly certain, month by month, that Europe would sooner or later be offered a sudden and staggering proposed "Solution"- whether or not it be now accepted. Repeatedly correspondents have described Herr Hitler as bringing on the Czechoslovak crisis: primarily to break up the Russo-Czech-French alliance; secondly to get control of the Sudeten Mountains which have barred his "Push-to-the-East"; and only lastly because of the joy it would give all Germans to feel that their "Sudeten brothers...
...people about anything important. Tantalized Sir Nevile remained for days in Nürnberg, telling every prominent Nazi except Hitler what His Majesty's Government "might" do if actual war broke out. But French Ambassador André François-Poncet got something interesting from the Dictator when Herr Hitler responded to some remarks from the Ambassador by observing: "I trust that no mother will ever have cause to weep in consequence of any action of mine." Henchmen of Hitler whispered that earlier that day he had sent Henlein back to Prague with the smooth advice, "Ask for more...
This seemed to mean that Germany will attack Czechoslovakia if she should mobilize, and Herr Hitler next plunged into telling Germans how "278,000 men are now working to fortify our western frontier which will be ready before winter!" Having thus suggested that Germany is not yet quite ready to fight, Der Führer swung into a threatening conclusion in which he vented his rage at President Benes' offer of 700,000,000 koruny as a pacifier to the Sudeten Germans...
...Herr Benes," shouted the Dictator, "to give the Sudeten Germans gifts. What the Germans demand is the right of self-determination. . . . The talks and half-promises of Benes cannot go on any longer. . . . President Benes has engaged in tactics showing that he desires to negotiate under the methods of the League of Nations-that cannot go on forever. . . . In Palestine the Arabs stand defenseless, and perhaps deserted. The Sudeten Germans are neither defenseless nor deserted. . . . I serve peace if I leave no doubt that the oppression of 3,500,000 Sudeten Germans is to end and be replaced...