The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-02
REPORT WORD
GIVEN BRITAIN
IN CZECH DEAL
Action Delays Any Euro
pean Outbreak for at
Least Two Weeks
CRUCIAL FARLEY ON
SITUATION IS AHEAD

BERLIN, Sept. 2. (UP)--Ger.
many has given assurances to
Great Britain that she will under
take no hasty steps in the Czecho-
slovakian minorities dispute, it
was reported authoritatively to
day.
1t was believed this assurance
was given through Sir Neville
Henderson, British ambassador,
and was understood to be in re-
turn for a pledge by the British
government that if minority pro
posals made by the Czech govern
ment and counter proposals which
the Sudeten German party is ex-
pected to advance resulted in a
deadlock, Viscount Runciman,
British advisor in the minorities
dispute, would publish his own
conclusions and suggestions by
mid-September.
This mean that the fear of war
which has hung over millions Of
European homes has been put off
for two weeks.
This report was circulated here
after Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler
gathered his key advisors, includ-
ing heads of the armed forces,
around him at his Berchtesgaden
retreat at Obersalzburg for a mo-
mentous conference with Konrad
Henlein, the "Czechoslovak Hit.
ler," last night.
Henlein, leader Of $4,000
Sudeten Germans of Czechoslo~
vakia whose militant autonomy
dmeands have carried all Europe
toward war, arrived here late yes
terday for meeting with Hitler
today.
Three questions stood out above
all others as Henleinp repaired to
meet Der Fuehrer. They were:
Twill they decide to reject
the Prague governments offer Of
a series of "Kupas" giving the
100000 Sudetens a measure OF
home rule along the lines of the
Swiss Confederation Of Cantons?
2-If so, will Hitler 60 before
the Nuremberg Nazi party con-
gress opening Monday and deliver
some form of ultimatum to Czech
oslovakia, fixing a deadline for
satisfaction" of the Sudeten
claims, as was reported in London
last night?
3-Does the presence Of key
Nazis and defense leaders at the
Berchtesgaden villa mean that
Hitler is mapping a course Of
armed force if the Prague .nego.
tiations fail?
Henlein will ask Der Fuehrer's
advice as to whether they should
be accepted as a basis for resum-
ing negotiations, but will point
out that, instead of unified auton-
omy for the Sudetens, they would
split the German areas into three
distinct "kupas," or districts.
The Czechoslovakian govern
ment's offer, as officially reveal
ed at Prague yesterday, includes:
of the country into
% cantonal districts, each with
a specified amount Of local self
government.
2-Three Of the % cantona
would be purely German.
3-Fifty per cent Of the Off
rials in the German cantons would
be Germans and so per cent
Czechs.
1.-The difference between this
$3.50 ratio and any preponder-
ance of German population in any
Of the districts would be compen-
;ated by German appointments in
Czech cantonS.
Sin mixed districts Czechs
and Germans would receive a pro-
oortionate percentage Of officials,
based on population.
6-The police in each district
would be under control of auton-
)mous district authorities but the
would retain the right
% intervene Sin protection of ma
;ional interests"
Lord Runciman conferred for
4 half hour yesterday with Presi-
lent Eduard Benes. Last night he
was the dinner guest of DR.. j.
PRESS, president of the Zivnos-
;enske bank at Lavichy.