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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...
...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 the Viscount created a great stir by thanking Sudeten German delegates for having met him at the station. Vexed Czechs made tart comments. Sudetens, learning with glee that "the British milord speaks German but he does not speak Czech," began referring to him as "Runzelmann" -which, freely translated, means The Man With the Wrinkled (i.e., Thoughtful) Brow...
...crash was scheduled to occur when the terms were published of a Minority Statute representing the maximum concessions which Czechoslovakia was willing to make to her Sudeten Germans. The terms did not greatly matter* but instantly the Sudetens and their brothers in Germany who have long practiced baiting Czechoslovakia (see p.30) raised an already rehearsed shout: "Completely unsatisfactory...
...German and Sudeten press gleefully asserted that by sending Lord Runciman Britain had "recognized" the Sudeten Germans. In Berlin, a prominent Nazi editor, with typical Aryan ineptitude, told to Associated Press (stipulating that he be not named), "No really sovereign state would accept an adviser such as Viscount Runciman. Can you imagine Switzerland, for instance, standing for such an adviser...
Czechoslovakian Maneuvers (Sun. 1 :30 p. m., CBS). War games described by CBS's William Shirer over short wave from Milovice in the Sudeten area...