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...Iron Nerves" In Prague, where U. S. Minister Wilbur J. Carr was having his wine cellar swiftly transformed into a cemented and sandbagged refuge against bombs, Viscount Runciman took off for London, but Viscountess Runciman stayed on to keep Czechoslovaks from feeling that Britain was deserting them. Over the weekend non-Nazi Sudeten Germans, previously cowed by Storm Troops, felt safe enough to sign up by thousands in the Sudeten Social Democratic Party. To check this trend, Sudeten Nazi No. 2 Ernst Kundt manifestoed Saturday to Nazis: "Remain within yourselves what you always were ! Keep waiting until Adolf Hitler...
...President, acting on reports from each Sudeten district, was now declaring martial law in those where bloodshed was actual or imminent. In Germany it was said that Adolf Hitler and Konrad Henlein were finding it impossible to get through to each other over Czechoslovak telephone lines, although Viscount Runciman talked from Prague to the Prime Minister at Berchtesgaden...
...lunch with His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Halifax. While they lunched, the French and Czechoslovak Governments urgently demanded that the Times editorial be repudiated, and every German paper jubilantly front-paged it as showing the "real mind" of Neville Chamberlain. Viscount Runciman, the British Mediator in Prague, began cabling London heavily in code, was reported threatening to resign. Finally, in the evening, at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister issued a communiqué: "The suggestion to the effect that the Czechoslovak Government might consider as an alternative to their present proposals...
...Straw Man." Viscount Runciman's entourage began complaining fortnight ago that they have found Konrad Henlein nothing but a "straw man," and last week the Sudeten Führer went to Berchtesgaden only to take the orders of his boss, Führer Hitler-for the fourth time this year...
This week Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin was back in Czechoslovakia, he and Lord Runciman conferred with Führer Henlein, and at these conferences there was "fearful rowing" according to reports. Viscount Runciman was said to have told Herr Henlein that he must stop inciting the Sudeten Germans to acts of violence...