REACTION IN PRAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 9

REACTION IN PRAGUE

CONFERENCE PROPOSAL

OFFICIAL RESERVATION

LONDON; September 29. 1 A message from Prague says that the public received the news of the fourPower conference with as much relief as could be expected from a nation, living constantly under the threat' ' of immediate attack. . The Prague correspondent of the "Daily. Telegraph" says that official circles are very reserved towards the conference, which is regarded as an unpleasant echo of Germany's longcontinued efforts to create a four* Power pact. It is considered ominous that Mr. Chamberlain's speech seemed to imply j that the only parts of the Godesberg memorandum which were unacceptable were its ultimative character, and its failure to allow a reasonable time for the readjustment of the Czech and Sudeten populations. The Brussels correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says the conference is considered to be a big step towards a solution. The idea of a conference between representatives of democracies and totalitarian States is hailed as a "miracle." A Paris report says the news of'the Munich meeting was hailed-by the entire nation with heartfelt relief as offering a last-minute chance of escape ; from the horrors of war. M. Daladiery in a broadcast, explained that he had intended to make a full statement but that the Munich invitation altered the situation. He thanked the people for their brave and dignified attitude. He would go to jthe conference in the thought that the whole nation wai behind him.