Evening star., 1938-09-21
LONDON NOTIFIED
OF CZECH ACTION
Acceptance Unconditional,
Foreign Office Told
UnofficiaI|y.
Ey the Associated Press,

LONDON, Sept. 2l.-The Csecho-
slovak Legation said tonight 1t had
been notified that the government
in Prague had accepted the Anglo
French proposal for meeting Adolf
Hitler's demands on Czechoslovakia.
Informed British sources said the
London foreign ONCE had not received
official word from its Minister In
Prague, but that 1t was understood
unofncially that Czechoslovakia's &C.
ceptance was unconditional.
In informed quarters it was an
nounced:
I'VE are given to understand by our
(British) Legation that Prague has
accepted the Anglo French proposals,
but no official notification of this fact
has reached us yet"
(The C1echoslovak cabinet voted
at $40 o'clock this morning
after an all-night session to sur
ernder to Riechsfuehrer Hitler and
accept his ultimatum, the Chicago
Daily News correspondent in
Prague reported
president Benes consented to the
Anglo-French peace plan at 9
O'Clock, the Paris correspondent re-
ported)
advice" Declared Given.
Sources close to the government
here said that the Anglo-French rep
resentations early this morning call
ing on the Prague government to
modify its original polite rejection
Of the proposals did not 60 beyond
advice"
But in diplomatic circles there was
agreement that these representations
were of an extremely strong nature,
amounting to virtual ultimatum.
The admiralty announced the Med
lterranean fleet had Cancelled courtesy
visits to Bulgarian and Rumanian
ports and was being concentrated
for exercises in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean."
Prime Minister Chamberlain, after
conferring with key ministers through
out the morning, had lunch with Earl
Baldwin, former Prime Minister who
steered the empire through the abdi-
cation crisis.
Political circles were stirred, mean
while, by an announcement that MI.
Chamberlain would address his own
constituents In the swank Edgbaston
division Of Birmingham October IA.
The announcement Immediately gave
rise to speculation that the 69-year-old
Prime Minister, tired by Is months Of
continuous crises, might be planning
to retire after completing his peace
deal with Hitler.
Cabinet to Meet.
A meeting Of the full British cabinet
was called for this afternoon to draft
Mr.. Chamberlain's reply to Hitler's
demands.
Observers felt the inner council" Of
the cabinet this morning wrote tenta-
tive note which Mr.. Chamberlain was
expected to give orally tomorrow to
Hitler at Godesberg, Germany, and
the cabinet would stamp it with full
approval.
Mr.. Chamberlain gathered the 'in-
ner cabinet. comprising Chancellor
of the Exchequer Sir John Simon,
Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax
and Home Secretary Sir Samuel
Hoare, at 10 Downing street at 1890
am.
Mr.. Chamberlain plans to take off
from Heston Airdrome at 10 am. a
am, E. s. T) tomorrow on his second
visit to Hitler.
He will fly to Cologne, from where
he will go to Godesberg.
With him aboard q British Airways
plane will be Sir Horace Wilson, Will
liam Strang, chief of the Central
European Department Of the Foreign
Office; Sir William Maxim, legal ad-
wiser to the foreign Office, and G. P.
Humphreys Davies, one of the Prime
Minister'S private secretaries.
Immediate Answer Demanded.
Rejecting the Czechoslovaks' plea
for time to discuss their own fate,
the British and French Ministers
to Prague early this morning demanded
an immediate answer from worried,
weary Czech officials to the Anglo
French plan for dismembering the
Czechoslovak republic.
In effect, diplomatic circles said,
they demanded q decision which may
lead in one way to war. on the other
way to revolution in Czechoslovakia.
When the Ministers, Sir Basil
Cochrane-Newton Of Britain and VIC
tor Leopold de la Croix OF France,
left the presidential palace in Prague
at $3.50 am, sleepless President
Benes called his inner cabinet into an
all-night session.