GERMAN! REJECTS BRITISH AND FRENCH PROTESTS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 149, 20 March 1939, Page 9

GERMAN! REJECTS BRITISH AND FRENCH PROTESTS

Common Policy Against Aggression POSSIBLE MOVE BY PEACE-LOVING MAJOR POWERS (Received March 19, 9 p.m.) LONDON, March 19. Sir Nevile Henderson, British ambassador in Berlin, acting upon instructions, informed Germany that Britain regarded the recent events in Czechoslovakia as a complete repudiation of the Munich Agreement and of the undertakings for peaceful co-operation then given. He also said that Britain regarded the changes resulting from German military action as without legal basis. A Paris message states that France sent a Note to Germany protesting against the occupation of Czechoslovakia and refusing to recognize the legality of the protectorate. It is reported from Berlin that Germany flatly rejected the British and French protests. Mr. Chamberlain changed his plans to spend his seventieth birthday in Birmingham and returned to London, where he summoned a full Cabinet meeting. Phis followed a meeting of the Defence Ministers. Hundreds silently watched the arrivals. Even Mr. Chamberlain was not cheered. The “Sunday Times” believes that Lord Halifax discussed with the French. American and Russian Ambassadors, ■ M. Corbin, Mr. Kennedy and M. Maisky, the possibility of the four peace-loving major Powers forming a common policy to face German aggression Lord Halifax reported on this subject to Cabinet. The German ambassador in London. Dr. von Dirksen, has been recalled to Berlin to report on the situation. Herr Kundt will act as his locum tenens. A Geneva message states that Dr Benes has telegraphed to the League of Nations invoking Article Ten of the Covenant against Germany.