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...decades the London Times, famed "Thunderer," was understood to speak for His Majesty's Government in times of crisis when they preferred not to speak for themselves. Europe was therefore gravely alarmed last week when the Times suggested in a bland editorial that perhaps the Sudeten German territory of Czechoslovakia had best simply be permitted to secede and merge with Germany...
...Hradcany Castle, ancient stronghold on the heights of Prague, Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes faced the crisis of his career. Fortnight ago the "maximum concessions" which the Czechoslovak Government believed it possible to make to Sudeten Germans without shattering its own sovereignty were offered in Premier Milan Hodza's "Plan No. 3," which Hitler promptly had the Sudetens turn down. The President then took over from the Premier, drafted and released...
...Plan No. 4." Premier Hodza in Plan No. 3 offered to reshape Czechoslovakia into a federation of Gaue or cantons like the Swiss Federal State, thus giving the Sudeten Germans and other minorities "states' rights...
Plan No. 4 added to this last week both financial and political concessions. President Benes offered to lend a billion Czechoslovak koruny ($35,000,000) "on the most favorable terms" to stimulate industry in Czechoslovak districts now suffering from unemployment, with 700,000,000 koruny earmarked for Sudeten districts. Britain and France stood ready to lend this money to Czechoslovakia, it was understood in Prague, and Dr. Benes clearly hoped many observers of the Sudeten Germans had been right in reporting recently that what they want is a return to prosperity, not Germany...
...most vigorous backslaps for British Prime Minister Chamberlain's foreign policy ever delivered. To newshawks Prime Minister Lyons declared that his Cabinet had decided to express to Great Britain its complete confidence in steps and methods adopted by the British Government for a peaceful settlement of the Czechoslovak-Sudeten German dispute...