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Britain is a sea power. The Kaiser would not sign a treaty giving Britain undisputed naval supremacy over Germany, but the Führer signed (and probably is not stupid enough to break) the treaty under which his navy is restricted to 35% of Mother England's (TIME, June 24, 1935). That was a trade. The gain to Britain, which the late Joseph Chamberlain would have considered stupendous, even with aircraft altering the picture, was something Neville Chamberlain bore well in mind at Munich. The vital lifelines of the British Empire, spanning the globe (see map), are still defended...
...Czecho-slovak-German frontier while German troops continued to enter and occupy the zones allotted them and Adolf Hitler darted in & out of his new Sudetenland, alternating Sudeten celebrations in his honor with business in Germany. A fine, heavy bouquet of thorny flowers hurled at the Führer by an "admirer" scratched his face...
...opinion of the more responsible Sudeten leaders" the concessions offered on September 6 as the famed Plan No. 4 could be considered virtually full acceptance of those demands which provoked the Czechoslovak crisis, namely the Karlsbad Demands made last April 24 by the Sudeten "Little Führer," Konrad Henlein...
According to the Runciman report, "Sudeten extremists" such as Führer Henlein brashly refused to go to Prague to discuss Plan No. 4, and also Henlein's additional demands, instead urged "ex-treme unconstitutional action"-i. e., Sudeten secession-so that by September 13 "the Reich had become the dominant factor in the situation; the dispute was no longer an internal one. It was not part of my function to attempt mediation between Czechoslovakia and Germany...
Replied the Führer: "If formerly the behavior of the Czechoslovak Government was brutal, it can only be described during recent weeks and days as madness. ... In a few weeks the number of [Sudeten] refugees who have been driven out of [Czechoslovakia] has risen to 120,000. This situation as stated above is unbearable and will be terminated...