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...British Government, although continuing to insist that Viscount Runciman arrived in Prague last week as a "purely private person," engaged a 15-room suite for him at the Alcron Hotel-long the favorite resort of Sudeten German politicians-and proceeded to pay all the bills...
Continentals expect an Englishman to arrive on diplomatic missions with an odor of sanctity, and Prague was not surprised to read that before Lord Runciman left Cowes, where he had been yachting, he bowed his head in its Holy Trinity Church while the vicar intoned a prayer "for one who is about to go to Czechoslovakia...
...mountain of luggage, exceptional even for a traveling British peer, went with Lord & Lady Runciman to Prague. He told reporters: "I may stay a month, or it may be three months." The Czechoslovak Government, on discovering that the British Legation staff were turning out in top hats to meet a Purely Private Person at the station, sent their own top hats, and in every observable respect Britain's unofficial mediator became official. His large staff of British Civil Servants released press handouts on crisp sheets headed "From Lord Runciman's Mission." In his first public utterance at Prague...
Konrad Henlein, the Sudeten German Führer, sent only subordinates to confer with the Viscount. The consideration with which he treated them was considered spectacular. Lord Runciman's program included 20-minute formal calls on President Eduard Benes and Premier Milan Hodza; two lengthy conferences with henchmen of Henlein, the second lasting until 2 a. m.; next day lunch with...
Last year the death of his father kicked Son Runciman upstairs into the peerage, curtailed his chances of becoming Prime Minister. Among Lord Runciman's varied interests are teaching Sunday School and yachting-he has sailed over 500.000 miles on salt water, and Sunbeam, one of his yachts, has twice taken him around the world. Last week, while headlines screamed his name in every land. Lord Runciman characteristically went down to yacht for a few days at Cowes, remote even from His Majesty's Government. This week he speeds to Prague to become Mediator...