Evening star., 1938-09-30

territory to Germany was named early
today and met briefly before flying tc
| Berlin.
Named on the commission were Sit
Neville Henderson, British Ambassador
to Berlin; Andre Francois Poncet, the
French Ambassador; Count Ernst Won
Weiszaecker. German secretary OF
state, and Bernardo Attolico, italian
Ambassador to Berlin, with the Czecho-
slovak Minister to Berlin, DR.. Vojtech
Mastny, likely to be the fifth member.
They were to supervise the occupa-
ton of Sudetenland, the selection OF
areas to be occupied and those in
which plebiscites are to be held, and
to administer other details.
Details of the agreement, for de-
livering Czechoslovak territory to Ger
many within 10 days, and for seeking
adjustment within three months of
demands of Hungary and Poland for
Czechoslovak territory in which their
minorities live, had been forwarded
to Prague earlier.
Next Step Enjoys Meeting.
The next step, it appeared, would
be meeting of Ambassadors of the
three powers-Britain, France and
Italy-With the German foreign min
lister in Berlin tomorrow afternoon to
implement the agreement reached
after last midnight.
Official informants said military
attaches Of legations and a staff
of experts might assist the interna-
tional commission after organization
at Berlin is completed.
The Munich plan permits Hitler to
send troops into Sudetenland grad
ually during the coming week and
provides for plebiscites in areas where
German minorities are not clear and
for international police to handle the
plebiscites.
The keynote of the Munich talks
and the justification advanced for
carving pieces for Germany, Poland
and Hungary from the Czech body
polite was Premier Daladier's COM
ment.
You must remember that We
avoided a terrible war" the weary,
sad-faced premier told his friends
when he plodded heavily into his
hotel.
Goering Overhears Remark.
Germany's air minister. Field Mar
shall Germam Wilhelm Goering, and
Foreign Minister Won Ribbentrop were
among those who overheard him as
they drank beer in celebration of the
agreement with a group Of German
officers in the hotel lobby.
Europeans all over the continent
sighed in relief when they learned
peace outweighed war on Munich's S
scales.
The Russian foreign minister, Maxim
Litvinoff, in Geneva left no doubt Of
his dissatisfaction with what the Rus
slams called the sacrifice OF Czecho-
slovakia for more terrible war later"
There were tart comments from Rus
slams, too, about the democratic allies
who consulted them as powerful friends
when war seemed inevitable, but who
didn't talk over the Munich agreement
with them.
The Russians were not alone, for
that matter, in a bitter view of the
Munich talks, called by Hitler at the
instigation of Mussolini and at the urg-
ing of President Roosevelt and Mr..
Chamberlain.
New Chances Of War.
War was chased around one corner,
all agreed, but some Europeans won-
dered about the next corner.
First of all there was the chance
that hitch in execution of the Mu-
Mich agreement might lead to other
crises. Some Frenchmen feared that
Hitler would see in Sudetenland occu-
patton an opportunity to go far deeper
into Czechoslovakia than the agree
ment permitted
Something like that happened in
Austria" said one French commenta-
tor. why not here?" (Hitler annexed
Austria March 49,
The Munich agreements are thinly
defined. with plenty of room left
for differences of Interpretation by