TWO HOURS FROM WAR
REPORT FROM ROME
CRISIS OF SEPTEMBER 28
LONDON, September 30.
It is disclosed from a reliable source in Rome that Europe was two hours from war at noon on September 28.
The British United Press correspondent at Rome says that Herr Hitler intended to send an overwhelming force to Czechoslovakia at 2 p.m. on September 28, whereupon Lord Perth, the British Ambassador, twice visited Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Secretary, spurring Signor Mussolini into action, for it was noon wheji he telephoned Herr Hitler, doubtless asking him to post-, j*one action, *
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 9
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94TWO HOURS FROM WAR Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 9
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