Posted on 08/06/2008 5:59:46 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
In the morning he received Premier Milan Hodza and Foreign Minister Kamil Krofta, who were returning the calls he paid on them yesterday. At noon he and Lady Runciman lunched with President Eduard Benes and his wife at Hradschin palace. At Lord Runciman’s wish the luncheon was entirely private.
In the afternoon Lord Runciman received a deputation of German Activists – who support the republic – consisting of Wenzel Jakach, Herr Taub and Herr Rehward. The interview lasted only half an hour, in contrast with the hour and a half the Henleinist leaders spent with Lord Runciman yesterday, followed by a late night conference with his staff.
These meetings were held at the Alcron Hotel. Tomorrow the Henleinist leaders again will have long conferences with Lord Runciman’s staff.
Last night they put forward the sensational demands advanced by Konrad Henlein in his Karlsbad speech April 24, when he proclaimed himself and his movement purely Nazi. The Henleinist delegates further explained to Lord Runciman’s staff the meaning of the party’s memorandum embodying most of the Karlsbad demands that was presented to the government June 7.
Incidentally, it is reported that the Committee of Political Ministers is drawing up an answer to the Henlein party’s memorandum.
The German Activist representatives deliberately refrained from bombarding Lord Runciman with documentary propaganda. They left it entirely to the British negotiator to say whether or not he wished further contact with them and advice from them. They told him that if he wished to hear the democratic German viewpoint they would be glad to draw up a memorandum next week and he requested that they do so.
They further offered to show him any industrial center in the Sudeten area that he wished to see, to enable him to “see for himself that the Sudeten Germans can do a good day’s hard work as well as conduct political agitation.”
Lord Runciman thanked them and said that he would consider their suggestion when he drew up his program of visits.
Lord Runciman is leaving Prague for a week-end in the Sudeten area and it is understood that he will pay a personal visit to a big German landowner. His staff refused all information tonight as to whom he would visit.
The German press and radio propaganda campaign in connection with the flight of two Czech planes over Glatz in German territory Wednesday is described as the most violent of all those launched against this country, not excepting the campaign in the days preceding May 21, when Czechoslovakia called reserves to the border.
The press reminds Germany that there have been many cases of German pilots flying as far as Pilsen without any Czech press campaign being launched against Germany. It is a fact the there are constant violations of the Czech frontier by German planes, which it is thought wiser here not to make the subject of protests nor even to allow mentioned [sic] in the press.
The extraordinary violence of the present German campaign gives rise to suspicions that there is truth in reports of large military concentrations around Glatz that have been received here in the last week.
Glatz is situated in a German “peninsula” almost entirely surrounded by Czechoslovak territory and it is quite conceivable that pilots flying over Czechoslovakia could make a mistake and cross the German line there.
The Prague radio replied to the German propaganda tonight in the form of an official communiqué giving three cases in which German pilots, giving the same excuse as the Germans refused to accept in the Galtz case – poor visibility – actually landed in Czechoslovak reserved military areas during the last two months.
Governor Lehman made a gesture of friendship toward the threatened democracy of Czechoslovakia yesterday by placing his name in a good-will book that a visiting youth delegation from that country will take throughout the United States later this month.
In a ceremony at his home here, 820 Park Avenue, the Governor received members of the committee planning a reception for the delegation before signing the book. His signature was the first in the book.
As they travel to cities with Czech and Slovak populations, the delegation members will endeavor to collect 250,000 Americans’ signatures to demonstrate their friendship for Czechoslovakia and interest in her independence.
Heading the committee, which was received by the Governor shortly after noon, was State Senator Leon A Fischel, who is honorary chairman of the reception committee and chairman of the American-Czechoslovak Committee for Rapprochement and Enlightenment, which will cooperate in the reception with a youth committee of the United Czech and Slovak Societies.
President Cardenas called leaders of the Chamber to the National Palace and asked them to settle the differences, which led to a suspension of the sessions for a week, in order to approve the Mexican note to the United States.
There were only 89 of 172 Deputies present when the resolution was passed without a record vote within one minute after the reading.
The resolution asserted that “arbitration was refused with firmness as unnecessary because of the precedent acceptance could have on the future claims against our country.”
Two ships, the Petter and the Polycarp, sailed for Hamburg, the Japanese leased C. G. Bovrig for either Hamburg or Yokohama, and the Myriam for a destination undisclosed but believed to be Germany. The Norwegian tanker Athos is believed to be proceeding to Houston, Texas.
Senator Burke asserted that the “horrid germs of racial hostility” will ultimately pollute and corrupt the “life stream in every country in the world” if the United States and the other great democracies have not the courage to condemn “organized and government-sponsored persecution of racial and religious minorities wherever such a thing occurs.”
Speaking before 233 men and women of the college graduating class, he said that the right of the majority to rule under democracy also means that there can be no real and enduring democracy “that does not at all times maintain a mantle of protection about every minority group and zealously guard the humblest and weakest members from all harm.”
“I contend that it is neither wise nor Christian to follow the course of silence,” with regard to Germany, he said.
He cited instances from the history of the nation to support his contention that America was “justified to speak out in such a manner we will aid in developing a moral sense of outrage and indignation which the guilty nations dare not ignore.”
Senator Burke received the honorary degree of Master of Science in Business Administration. Others getting honorary awards were:
Dr. James F. Rockett, State Director of Education, Doctor of Science in Commercial Education; Everett E. Salisbury, agent of the Atlantic Mills, Doctor of Science in Business Administration; Ernest I. Kilcup, president of the Davol Rubber Company, Master of Science in Business Administration; Frederick C. Freeman, president of the Providence Gas Company, Master of Science in Business Administration.
M. Blum recognized that France made specific reservations with regard to Far Eastern affairs, but since that time has come the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo triangle, which, in M. Blum’s estimation, has placed a different complexion upon the whole situation.
“We do not know the details of the triangle agreement,” he says, “but we do know that Germany, Italy and Japan never made a secret of the fact that the accords between them are based upon a common determination to fight against communism, against Soviet Russia.
“No one, therefore, has the right to set aside the Hypothesis that Hitler Germany, in order to conform to the spirit of the alliance with Japan, might be led to give armed support to the Japanese or to attack the Soviet on the European front. I do not give any special clauses which would operate in this case, but simply state that if it should happen the Franco-Soviet pact would operate and France would become involved.”
M. Blum adds that the same thing would be true if Germany should take the opportunity of a Russo-Japanese struggle to intervene by force in Czechoslovakia.
Among patients being kept alive in Great Britain’s limited supply of “iron lungs” is an expectant mother, Mrs. Peggy Goodwin, 26 years old, of Braintree, Essex.
No common source for the outbreak has been discovered. Infantile paralysis has become a seasonal disease in Great Britain, reaching its peak in August and September. Thus far twenty-six cases have been notified this week, compared with sixty as the highest week’s total last year.
The uniforms, dark blue for Winter and white for Summer, are of military type with insignia to indicate the wearer’s grade in the Fascist militia or party.
They are similar to those adopted several years ago in Germany for civilian employes.
MEXICAN DEPUTIES APPROVE NOTE TO U. S.
MORE OIL LEAVES MEXICO
BURKE URGES ATTACK ON REICH ‘BARBARITIES’
BLUM ASSERTS SOVIET WILL GET FRENCH AID
Cuban House President Quits
PARALYSIS GRIPS BRITAIN
Canal Tolls Still Dropping
Italian Civil Employes To Wear Uniforms Oct. 28
Puerto Rico Teachers Unionize
29 Die in Portuguese Boat Crash
German Prince, Bride in Tokyo
I wondered about that myself. Was the depression deepening that late?
Side note that the avg toll was about $4,000 then. Wonder what it is now.
According to a Wikipidea explanation it depends on the cargo size, but seems to run around $200,000 for a loaded container ship.
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