VISCOUNT RUNCIMAN CONFERS WITH MR CHAMBERLAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1938, Page 6

VISCOUNT RUNCIMAN CONFERS WITH MR CHAMBERLAIN

Return to Czechoslovakia Uncertain ATTITUDE OF BRITISH LABOUR PARTY By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 16. There will be a meeting of Cabinet tomorrow morning to discuss Mr Chamberlain’s impressions. Viscount Runciman, leaving Number 10, Downing Street, stated that he did not know whether he would be returning to Czechoslovakia. The National Council of Labour agreed not to countenance a plebiscite and reaffirmed the Blackpool declaration. FOUR-POWER CONFERENCE SAID TO HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN ROME TALK OF CEDING SUDETENLAND TO GERMANY (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 16. The Rome correspondent of the British United Press says possibilities of a Four-Power conference between France, Britain, and Italy and Germany, in an endeavour to effect a settlement, are reported to have been discussed at length by Count Ciano (Italian Foreign Minister) and Sir N. H. Charles, Counsellor’ to the British Embassy. Lord Perth (British Ambassador) is curtailing his holiday and returning home on September 19. This is interpreted as supporting the view that Britain is attempting to interest Italy in a general solution by a number of Powers. The Paris correspondent of the British United Press says that despite her apprehensions, France is apparently prepared to support any compromise Mr Chamberlain may suggest. The Press and politicians now envisage the ceding of f Sudetenland to Germany as the price or avoiding war.