BRITISH AND FRENCH PLAN FOR PEACE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22517, 27 September 1938, Page 11

BRITISH AND FRENCH PLAN FOR PEACE

Details of Proposals Accepted

Last Week

GUARANTEE OF NEW BOUNDARIES SUGGESTED

fOHTTED FBESS ASSOCIATION—COPTHIOHT.) (Received September 26, 8 p.m.) LONDON, September 25. An authoritative quarter has made available the details of the original British and French plan, which the Czech Government accepted last week. It provides for (1) The transfer without a plebiscite of areas of more than 50 per cent, of Sudeten Germans, with a proviso to arrange by negotiation adjustments of the frontier, where circumstances make it necessary, by some international body including Czech representatives.

(2) An exchange of population on the basis of the exercising of the right of option freely within a specified time limit.

(3) If the Czech Government is prepared to agree to these measures, involving material changes of conditions in Czechoslovakia, it should be entitled to ask for assurances of future security. Accordingly a general international guarantee is proposed to safeguard Czechoslovakia against all possible aggression. This would be substituted for the existing military and reciprocal treaties.

The British Government expressed its readiness to join this international guarantee of the new boundaries of Czechoslovakia against "unprovoked aggression."

It is learned also that the British and French plan frankly acknowledged the magnitude of the sacrifice required from Czechoslovakia.