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REMARKABLE

LETTER

Text Of Mussolini Appeal To Lord Runciman

No More Time

Time For Compromise In "Sausage State"

Rome, To-day.

-NEW ZEALAND-

ATTITUDE DEFINED

Wellington, To-day.

"Wherever Britain is, we must

初

be,' Thus the Prime Minister,

Mr. M. J. Savage, yesterday de- fined New Zealand's attitude in

Il Duce takes cognizance of the Sudeten German and Czech problem for the first time in an arti- cle published by “Popolo d'Italia” and headed the European crisis.—Renter. "Letter to Lord Runciman.”

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to exist.

"NEW BOHEMIA”

territories where simply result in a brother nation

plebiscite will anschluss with But there are

also territories where most varied races are hopelessly mixed and it is impossible to determine ethnic groups.

DEMOCRATIC TRADITION

In these regions a system of so- called cantonisation with equal rights, or something similar could be adopted. Moreover it would correspond entirely with democratic tradition. When the plebiscite areas. have been determined, then condi tions and supervision will have to war in order to save a fictitious state which in its geographic com could be international such as that be agreed upon. This supervision position is a monstrosity, to which one has repeatedly referred as which stood the test in the Saar Blind-out or Sausage State.

plebiscite.

HAVE RIGHT

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The text is as follows: "When, by centripetal but by centrifugal you left London for Prague some strength. Only force holds them weeks ago, the world was not clear together. The moment this coercion as to your mission, the capacity in ceased, the disintegration and dis- which you would act and the res- solution of Czecho-Slovakia would

If London says that it is to re- Lord Runciman, I have the im- ponsibility you would assume. "Was inevitably and irresistibly set in.

main intact, nobody will dare to pression that this letter will interest your official? Was it unofficial? That all remained, so to speak, en-

stir. The game is not worth the you. When this problem is settled, veloped in a London fog. Was your

In Versailles it was intended to stake even if the freemason pow-further clarification of the map of effected and mission purely that of mediator or

found a, new Bohemia-an his- ers-that-be of the "Grand Orient" Europe will have

the flames of and disorder would it have been in the nature toric name with the homogeneous risked everything.

If Hitler had ventured to annex will have been extinguished. A of an arbitrator at a certain time? Czech population: but instead of. However that may be, you came to that, Czecho-Slovakia was created-three and one half million Czechs, country reduced to reasonable size Prague with a staff of collaborators something entirely new and thus Europe would have had reason to by peaceful means will be safer. and the attention of the whole artificial State has been formed get excited and to raise a din. But stronger and more prosperous when world was fixed on you.

which was born with all the ele-Hitler has not thought of doing not weighed down with the ballast of hostile nationalities. It is almost Nobody could help adimiring the ments of its weakness and inability such a thing. zeal with which you took up your

impossible for Italy to maintain

heavy duties. 'In the course of the

"I believe, Lord Runciman, that "I, who am writing this letter to friendship with Czecho-Slovakia but last few weeks you have read in- you have literally found this to be you, have a right to say to you con- it would be quite possible with the numerable memorandums and hun- the case just as I have described it. fidentially that if you entertained future Bohemia.

NEW POSSIBILITIES dreds of letters, received dozens of Perhaps you will have asked your-any idea of offering three and one people and spoken with orders of self what there still remains for half million Czechs to Hitler, he

A new political territorial situa- all the nationalities; for it is not you to do the possibility of your would refuse this present politely

tion would establish a new equili- only the Sudeten German problem [return to London has actually been but firmly,

And but also one affecting Hungarian, mooted. Your great chance, how- The Fuehrer is concerned with briunt with new possibilities.

what is particularly important Polish and Slovak minorities: as ever, has come only just now, after 3,500,000 of his own people and is

Mil- looking after their interests alone. Europe would be spared war many people as there are nationali-Hitler's speech, Lord Runciman. ties with which the Benes Republic

could act and accomplish Nobody can deny him this right, lions think that it is absolutely ne was inflated at Versailles.

annals of history. No re- No one can dispute the pressing na-cessary to make this possible. Fron- “NO NATION

sults which would find their place ture of that obligation and least of tiers, which have been drawn with "I am convinced that in your in the annals of history. Now there all the Italians who have experien a stroke of the pen can be altered with a stroke of the pen. It is heart you have come to the con- is no more time for compromise.ced similar case. clusion: as there is, no Czecho Karlsbad has been left behind long Have courage, Lord Runciman! certainly a very different matter Slovak national there can be no ago. Benes, this old Parliamen-Propose a plebiscite or, to be more whether frontiers are drawn by Czecho-Slovak. State.

tarian fox has lost the race.

exact, plebiscites! It is a splendid God's hand or with the blood and delicate task. There are entire human beings. Trans-Ocean. "You, Lord Runciman, have noț] MUST PROPOSE PLEBISCITE accidentally come to a family where You, Lord Runciman, must sim- there is a minimum of affection and ply propose a plebiscite to Benes, understanding, which qualities exist not only for the Sudeten Germans between people of the same blood.but for all nations which demand No! The fundamental elements of it. And if Benes refuses a plebis- the Czecho-Slovak family are dif- cite? Then you will make it clear ferent races and cannot tolerate to him that England will think one another. They are inspired hot seven times before embarking on

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