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...irresistible force meets immovable body there can be only one result, a cosmic explosion. Last week as just such an explosion seemed about to take place in European affairs-as German demands rushed headlong against Czechoslovak determination-stolid Britain suddenly slipped into the swiftly narrowing gap a dignified cushion: Viscount Runciman...
...House of Lords was informed by Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax that, after Lord Runciman was told what is expected of him, he exclaimed: "I quite understand. You are setting me adrift in a small boat in mid-Atlantic...
...Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Prague had "invited" Britain to send a mediator. Next day Prague officials said they had sent no invitation, added that of course they would "welcome" the Viscount. Leading French Newspundit Pertinax (André Géraud) bitterly deplored the creation of a situation in which both Prague and Paris will have to follow the lead of London. For most commentators agreed that British public opinion will never support the use of arms to aid Czechoslovakia if the recommendations of Lord Runciman are against...
...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...
...Vive le Roi!" The British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, who accompanied King George to handle negotiations for His Majesty's Government, began at once an earnest conversation with French Premier Edouard Daladier which appeared completely to engross the two statesmen as the car in which they rode followed the procession. The $7,500.000 jewels meanwhile were whisked quietly to the British Embassy, locked up in the safe. Individual pieces were brought separately by the Scotland Yard detectives to Their Majesties, who lodged on the Quai d'Orsay in the palace of the French Foreign Office. There, the large...