CZECHS WANT SAY IN ANY SETTLEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1938, Page 9

CZECHS WANT SAY IN ANY SETTLEMENT.

REMINDER TO POWERS. Long Meetings of British Cabinet. EARNEST CONSULTATIONS. United Tross Association. —Copyright, (Received 12 noon.) LONDON*, September 18. The Czechoslovak Minister in London. Mr. .J. Masaryk, notified the British and French Governments that Czechoslovakia takes it for granted that she will he consulted before their arrival at decisions, otherwise she cannot accept responsibility for them. Many earnest consultations in London yesterday began with the visit to No. 10, Downing Street, of Viscount Ptinciman, who returned from Prague on Friday, and soon after his arrival joined the Ministers at the Cabinet meeting, says a British official wireless message.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, discussed the situation in the light of his visit to Herr Hitler with the so-called "inner council" of the Cabinet, namely, Viscount Halifax, Sir John Simon arid Sir Samuel Hoare.

Civil Service advisers present at that meeting included Sir Robert Vansittart, eliief diplomatic adviser to the Foreign Oflice, and Sir Alexander Cado-

This morning's consultations between Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Runciman lasted until the Ministers began to arrive at Downing Street for the full meeting of the Cabinet.

While the Cabinet was in session Mr. F. T. Ashton-Gwatkin, Foreign Office adviser, who returned with Lord Runciman from Prague, was called to Downing Street.

The Ministers adjourned for lunch to resume at 3.15 p.m.

In view of the continuing gravity of the situation, the newspapers welcome the fact that events are being lifted from the control of hot temper into an atmosphere of cool but resolute statesmanship.

Restraint is displayed in discussing critical problems, and while developments are awaited here with anxious calm, hopes are expressed that a similar attitude will be observed elsewhere.