Evening star., 1938-09-28
D. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2s 1850
GERMANY. DRAFTS
STAND ON MUNICH.
Flood Of Inquiries Swamp
Foreign Office After ParIey
Is Agreed On.
~ the Associated Press.

Is Agreed On.
~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. 2s.-The German
government late today was drafting
4 carefully phrased ofhcial COM
munique to outline the stand taken
BY Reichsfuehrer Hitler With regard
70 tomorrow's four-power peace con-
ference at Munich.
News Of acceptance Of the confer
snce proposal by the principal partic-
tpAnts - Hitler, Premier Aussolini,
Prime Minister Chamberlain and Pre-
mier Daladier-brought . deluge of
inquiries a. to ofdcial reaction.
The foreign ONCE and propaganda
ministry were besieged by questioners.
please have patience until the on
cial communique which Il now being
worked out Is issued" government
spokesman said.
I'm times like these every word
must be weighed, 70 1t Is better II I
do not say anything at this moment" I"
Guarantees Czech Integrity.
An authoritative source said today
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler had sent .
letter to Prime Minister Chamberlain
guaranteeing that C1echoslovakia's
political and economic independence
would not be endangered BY German
occupation Of Sudetenland.
The letter. sent yesterday after
Chamberlain's broadcast to the British
Empire, was reported to have said,
however, that occupation Of the
sudeten territory was indispensable"
in view Of conditions which Germany
could no longer endure.
Hitler told the British prime min
lister 0ermany's decision to occupy
sudetenland by October was intended
solely Is . measure Of safety to insure
order during final settlement of the
problem by . plebiscite.
Germany is even ready to be CO.
guarantor with Poland and Hungary
Of the revised Czechoslovak states
independence, Hitler was said to have
written.
Asks About Fleet Mobilization.
He also was reported to have asked
Chamberlain why Britain was mobiliz-
ing her feet and France was prepar-
ing for q state Of war II Chamberlain
realized, as he said in his broadcast,
that Europe ought not to be plunged
into . war on account Of the German
Czechoslovak conflict.
There was no nation in existence
anywhere that desired to dominate
the whole world by force. he was said
to have told Chamberlain, and Ger
many demands nothing more than the
granting Of . right solemnly con-
ceded to it.
A foreign office spokesman, COM
menting upon President Roosevelt's
latest appeal for peace to Hitler, said
that the time for exchanging friendly
messages Is past and 1t was unlikely
any reply would be sent to the United
States President.
Our Fuehrer," said the spokesman.
took cognizance Of the American
Presidents reply to his yesterdays
telegram, but no answer is likely to
be forthcoming. else there will be no
end to the messaging back and forth.
Our Fuehrer now, Is before, Is
doing all he can to avert war and
safeguard the interests Of peace, but
1t is up to the others to do likewise"
Asked whether any instructions on
editorial policy had been given Ger
man newsmen in their daily press
conference, he replied In the negative.
Denies Existence Threatened.
In the new letter to Chamberlain,
Hitler, 1t was said reliably. denied
that the national existence Of Czecho-
slovakia was threatened.
Regulation Of the Sudeten problem
should be accomplished by . free
plebiscite, he held.
Germany never intended. an author
itative informant said Hitler wrote, to
destroy the Czechoslovak state by
military measures Of force"
The plebiscite method was to be
that applied In the case of the Saar
valley. Only on the basis of that pleb-
iscite, in the German view, would the
new frontier be established. Germany
did not demand q demarcation Of the
line in advance, Hitler's note was said
to have asserted.
The note continued that Germany's
demand to occupy Sudeten regions by
Saturday was intended solely to be a
measure Of safety for guaranteeing
quick and final regulation Of the mat
ter without incident.
Occupation OF Sudetenland, Hitler
was said to have held. is indispensable
in view Of the impossible conditions
In the Sudeten region, which cannot
endure longer.
Not to permit German troops in
stantly to occupy Sudeten territory
would mean giving Prague the possi-
bility Of extending negotiations over
every point and indefinitely delay final
regulation, Hitler supposedly wrote.
II certain fortifications are involved
In territory to be ceded ut once, the
note was outlined, it was not Berlin's
fault these were included in the
Czechoslovak governments readiness
to accept the French British plan
agreed upon at Godesberg. .
It would take months and years
for new fortifications to be ready for
the Cgechoslovaks. For this, 1t was
held, Germany could not wait.
SECOND HINES JURY
TO BE BLUE RIBBON