STAND BY TREATY

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 224, 22 September 1938, Page 11

STAND BY TREATY

CABINET DIVIDED.

French Ministers Give Way

Under Pressure.

CHURCHILL FLIES TO PARIS.

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(Received 1.90 pjn.)

LONDOK, September 81. Mr. Winston Churchill made a flying visit to Paris and saw M. Panl Reynaud, Minister for Justice.

It is revealed in Paris that the Cabinet Ministers, MM. Reynaud, Mandel (Colonies), Gentin (Commerce), Campinchi (Navy), and Zay (Education) opposed the Czech plan. They wanted France to support the Czechs and stand by the treaty, buf, under pressure, they acquiesced.

Frenchmen shamefacedly heard Prague's acceptance. Though the majority regard the proposals as justified as an attempt to avert a greater evil, the feeling of relief would be greater if it were certain that Herr Hitler would regard the offer Mr. Chamberlain will make as enough. REPLY IN LONDON. Foreign Ambassadors Call at Foreign Office. POLE-HUNGARY CLAIMS. (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, September 21. The text of Czechoslovakia's Note accepting the Franco-British proposals was received in London this evening. Following an afternoon Cabinet meeting, the High Commissioners were informed at the Dominions Oflice of the course of events.

Viscount Halifax, Foreign Secretary, informed the Polish and Hungarian representatives that note would be taken of their representations in reference to minority rights.

SHIP OF PEACE. Chamberlain Guides It Into Port. MUSSOLINI'S SPEECH. (Received 1 p.m.) TREVISO, September 21. Signor Mussolini, In a speech, declared that at this moment the British Prime Minister, who took the political initiative, is leading the little ship of peace into port. Italians have been the calmest . . a '* European peoples during the crisis, because thev were always ready to win.