BRITISH PRIME MINISTER VISITING HERR HITLER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1938, Page 7

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER VISITING HERR HITLER

Rapid Journey to Berchtesgaden FUEHRER “VERY READY” TO MEET . MR CHAMBERLAIN By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 14. Downing Street announces that the Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain) is flying to Berchtesgaden to visit Herr Hitler, to try to find a peaceful solution. Herr Hitler says "he is very ready” to meet Mr Chamberlain. Mr Chamberlain sent to Herr Hitler, through the British Ambassador in Berlin (Sir Nevile Henderson), the following message:— “In view of the increasingly critical situation, I propose to come over at once to see you, with a view to trying to find a peaceful solution. I propose to come across by air and am ready to start tomorrow. Please indicate the earliest time at which you can see me and suggest a place of meeting. Should be grateful for a very early reply.” Herr Hitler replied that he would be “very ready” to meet Mr Chamberlain tomorrow, the place of meeting to be at Berchtesgaden. Mr Chamberlain will be accompanied by Sir Horace Wilson and Mi William Strang, of the Foreign Office staff. They are to leave Heston by a British Airways machine at about 8.30 a.m., arriving at Munich at one p.m., and will thence proceed to Berchtesgaden, where Herr Hitler went after an interview with Herr von Ribbentrop (German Foreign Minister). Simultaneously with the official announcement from Downing Street, German broadcast listeners heard the music interrupted for Mr Chamberlain’s visit to be announced.