CZECH ACCEPTANCE OF PEACE PLAN?

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1938, Page 9

CZECH ACCEPTANCE OF PEACE PLAN?

LATEST ADVICES

PRAGUE CABINET SHS FOR FIVE HOURS

BRITAIN FORCES FRANCE?

(Unite,! p A«oriati«,n.-O. I .yri t? ht.-Rpo. 2 p.m.) LONDON, this day. -ated \T7X P r gUC COrre9 P° nde nt says it is authoritatively Vnd wi 1 If G ° Vernment wi! > accept the Franco-British plan of a «ply a C ° ncrete to enable the framing m^- 71, " f d l CiS r n u WaS ' eached - s^s Outer's, after a five-hour meeting of the Cabinet Council under Dr. Benes. President, which ended at 12.45 a.m. to-day. Cabinet will again meet at I 1 a.m. Another message from Pra-ue says that the Government, after an anx.ous and momentous sitting, adjourned till to-day to enable Dr. Krofta, Foreign Minister, to report to the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament. Meantime the Government issued a manifesto asking the public to accept reports from the world Press calmly, in the knowlec;ne that the President and Government were constantly in communication with friendly States, and adding that the Government will consider the results of conversations between Britain nnd France from the viewpoint of necessities and the actual life interest of the Czechoslovak State. The Times" Paris representative says that one of the principal points M. Daladier made to Cabinet was that Britain, while not disputing France's right to honour her obligations to Czechoslovakia, refused to commit herself to miltary support unless France's integrity were threatened. Therefore, M. Daladier declared, it was his duty at least to support the presentation of the proposals to Prague. The first reactions to the reported details of the settlement plan, says the "Daily Telegraph" Prague correspondent, were sheer incredulity followed by a wave of indignation. Officials could not believe that France would consent to terms involving dismemberment and surrender to the most radical demands by Herr Hitler. The public demands rejection of the plan regardless of cost.