Evening star., 1938-09-08
HITLER TELLS STJDETENS
TO RESUME AUTONOMY
CONFERENCE AT PRAHA
Reich Concentrate
on Britain for
Decision.

BACKGROUND
Chancellor Hitler at Nurnberg to
address Nasi Congress surprised
norld ,rhen he retrained from ref
ernce to Sudeten-C Czech conflict.
Yesterday, hoDeper, he advised
Konrad Henlein, Sudeten leader, to I.
reject latest autonomy proposal Of
tered by Czechs. Don't accept" he
said. ASK for more and you'll get
it," British Ambassador Sir Neuile
Henderson came to Nurnberq to
impress upon Hitler BritdinS de-
termination to fight in defense of
Csechs should lDdr come. He re-
mains at conference.
BULLETIN.
LONDON, Sept. 8 (P).-The Brit
ish cabinet was summoned today
to meet next Monday, a few hours
before Reichsfuehrer Hitler is ex-
pected to make at Nurnberg, Ger
many, a speech which may tell
Europe whether there will be war
or peace over Czechoslovakia.
By the Associated Press.
NURNBERG. Germany, Sept. g.
Adolf Hitler, who yesterday ordered
Sudeten Germans to discontinue their
negotiations for self-rule with the
Czechoslavak government, today IN
structed the minority leaders to re-
sumo the talks.
The reason for this change, it was
said, was the desire of the chancellor
and self-styled protector of Sudeten
Germans to convince the world he was
leaving nothing undone to find a
peaceful solution to the Czech German
crisis.
tIn Praha an Associated Press
dispatch says Sudeten German Of
flcials declared there was no pros
pect of renewed negotiations until
the whipping of Sudeten deputy
had been adjusted satisfactorily
Informed quarters said with this
additional evidence of a conciliatory
spirit to the Sudeten Germans credit
Hitler could "all the more press upon
the British to demand maximum con-
cessions from the Czechoslovak admin
istration."
German efforts will now be concen-
trated upon getting the British to act
quickly and decisively, these sources
added
Henlein Orders Calm.
Konrad Henlein, Sudeten German
leader, returned to Nurnberg this
morning after hurried overnight
Journey to Czechoslovakia, which he
took at Hitler's behest.
An informed source said the Sudeten
Fuehrer ordered his followers to re-
main calm and refrain from intensity
ing the conflict while his negotiations
with Hitler, and Hitler's with Britain,
are in progress.
Henlein hastened home after re-
Ceiving reports that the "horsewhip-
ping" Of Sudeten deputy by a Czech
policeman in a border town had caused
q rupture of the Sudeten-Prague gov
ernment negotiations.
Henlein told his followers to reopen
those negotiations, informed persons
said
There was no immediate meeting OF
Hitler and Henlein after the latter's
return. for the German Fuehrer spent
all morning in the 10th annual con-
gress of the Nazi party and left after
lunch to attend Nazi athletic meet.
Patience Is Near End.
Germany's patience with both the
British and the Czechoslovaks in nego-
tiations for German minority rights
in Czechoslovakia is near its end, a
general we'll aware of events said today.
I'VE never will make war on the
Czechs," the general told this writer
at the Nazi Party Convention here,
but if the lives of our German breth-
rem are not safe the day may come
when We shall consider that they (the
Czechs) started war with US.
In such case, of course, we shall
remember that attack is the best
method of defense"
He spoke in the light of these grave
developments in the crisis:
l. Action by Czech mounted po-
liceman who rode into noisy crowd
in Maehrisch-O Ostrau, near the German
and Polish borders with Czechoslo-
vakia. and, Germans said, struck with
his riding crop the shoulders of
Sudeten German legislator.
2. The decision by Sudeten German
party leaders to break off negotiations
with the Prague government because
of the Maehrisch-Ostrau incident,
(See HITLER, Page A-3)