CZECH OFFICIAL BROADCAST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1938, Page 8

CZECH OFFICIAL BROADCAST

Acceptance Forced by Refusal of Help TREATMENT OF VANQUISHED ENEMIES RECEIVED FROM ALLIES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) PRAGUE, September 21. In an official broadcast, the Czech Government stated:—“After twenty years of peace and order, a grave European crisis has broken out. Czechoslovakia is threatened by dynamic political currents. Our Western European friends, France and Britain, are not prepared to help. The Government is placed in the dilemma of either accepting the Western Powers’ suggestions or fighting alone without hope of success. It is therefore forced to accept all the conditions proposed and even by the greatest sacrifices to preserve the State’s independ“Don't let your courage sink. Remain firm in loyalty to the Republic. In a case unparalleled in history, our allies impose conditions usually dictated to vanquished enemies. It was not lack of courage which induced the Government to this decision. God knows, it is more courageous to live than to commit suicide. We stand alone and shall rise again if you remain working. Nothing can be solved by acts of violence. After the broadcast a demonstration broke out. An official communique states: —“Today, at 5 p.m., Dr Krofta (Foieign Minister) received the French and British Ministers and answered the joint demarche made at 2 a.m. Negotiations were opened for formal proceedings for a solution of the proposals France and Britain deemed it necessary to make to Czechoslovakia on September 19.