Foreign News 1938: Four Chiefs, One Peace: Czechoslovakia

Four Chiefs, One Peace

At one of the most dangerous moments of the Czechoslovak crisis last week, when Britain and France were mobilizing for war and Adolf Hitler was adamant in repeating that the German Army would "march" unless Prague yielded to all his demands, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain adr dressed the Empire and the U. S. by radio, declared Führer Hitler's demands "unreasonable." The next day, at a time of even greater tension he appealed to the Italian Premier Benito Mussolini to use his good offices with the Führer.

At five minutes before noon on the fatal day, with German troops actually...

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