CROWD IN DOWNING ST.
MINISTERS CONFER
REPORTED DECISION
PLAIN WARNING TO GERMANY
(Received September 12, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 11. The Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Home Secretary met at Downing Street at noon., while hundreds of people thronged the street outside. The Ministers' conference continued through luncheon till Sir Samuel Hoare left at 3 p.m. Lord Halifax received Mr. Anthony Eden at the Foreign Office and had a conference with him for 95 minutes. The United States Ambassador, Mr. J. P. Kennedy, also arrived at the Foreign Office. The "Daily Mail" says that the Cabinet has decided to inform Germany in precise and formal terms that Britain will not stand aside if Czechoslovakia is attacked. i Mr. Chamberlain is " reported to' have decided that the time has . arrived to inform Germany that Britain will join France in resisting aggression in Central Europe. There is extreme reticence in Downing Street, which at present refuses !to deny or confirm the "Daily Mail's" story. j It is officially stated by Downing street that, in view of statements which have appeared in the last day or so regarding reported decisions of Ministers, it can be stated authoritatiyely that no such statements should be regarded as authentic. Mr. J. li. Garvin, writing in the "Observer," says that war on Czechoslovakia would make British neutrality unthinkable. He expresses the opinion that England and Germany are more seriously face to face than at any time since 1914. Mr. Garvin, who is well known for his advocacy of an Anglo-German understanding and rapprochement, says: "An armed attack by the Greater Reich upon Czechoslovakia —though we still decline to believe Herr Hitler him,self has ever contemplated it—would be without exception and by far the greatest crime that was ever committed in the world's history. This is the opinion of the vast majority of civilisation. It is the unanimous conviction of this country."'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 63, 12 September 1938, Page 9
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CROWD IN DOWNING ST.
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 63, 12 September 1938, Page 9
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