Show i Cj- Cj and France Give ir e Final warning to Hitler Hitler TWO POWERS DEMAND THAT NAZIS END HATE HAlE DRIVE AGAINST CZECHS Cabinets b 1 Meet l in Emer Emergency c Sessions to lo Draft Peace Plans or ol Prepare 1 for Vi War ar if It Comes ConIcs LONDON Aug 30 AP The AP-The The cabinets of the French British entente meeting in the face of the most realistic war m menace menaco nac since 1914 today drafted urgent plans to preserve world pea peace peace e or to meet the conflict if it comes 4 An emergency meeting of British Brit Brit- Uh ish ministers lasting nearly three hours was vas believed to have ha reached a united decision on a aulm calm ulm but firm Irm final Inal demand that Hitler halt the I German campaign of hate hale against i Czechoslovakia and cooperate in efforts to reach a settlement of the dangerous German Issue The French cabinet meeting even longer voted itself virtual power to mobilize French industry for or war purposes Informed persons said there was every reason to believe that 18 of he the 22 members of ot the British cabnet cabet cabinet cab- cab net inet m et meeting at 10 Downing street likewise considered preparedness measures of a military and naval nature The fact that the French ministers ministers minis minis- ers also approved Instructions to French envoys abroad indicated the probability of strong coordinated coordinated coordinated diplomatic action by the two powers to impress on on Hitler that any war resulting from rom German action holds suicidal possibilities The two great democracies- democracies France and Britain hold Britain hold that the German chancellors chancellor's sponsorship of the Germans' Germans demands for autonomy within Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Is the chief threat to Europe's Europe's Europe's Eu Eu- ropes rope's peace Charles Corbin Frances France's ambassador ambassador ambassador ambas ambas- to Britain was expected in London tonight to confer with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax Halifax Halifax Hali Hali- fax and presumably to bring an account of the Paris Parts governments government's decision During the afternoon Joseph p P. P I Kennedy United States ambassador ambassador ambassador dor visited 10 Downing street and II conferred with both Prime Minister Minister Minis Minis- ter ten Neville Chamberlain and arid Si Sir r Nevile Henderson British ambassador ambassador ambas ambas- radon to Berlin here hers to report t this to o his government 1 Kennedy had just re returned from froma I Ia a vacation on the French Riviera Rivier a. a Chamberlain prepared to go t to o Balmoral Scotland tonight to report re report report re- re port to King George VI I Lord Halifax was able to give gl his colleagues colleague an o outline o of new proposals which l the Czechoslovak vak ak government Jo Is M. M about to present present present pre pre- sent to the Germans as a 1 possible basis for or solution of their q qua quarreL u a r r e L Authoritative British sources said the proposals were reasonable But in the last analysis the decision decision decision de de- de- de on war or peace was wu considered considered consid consid- ered eyed in British circles tl to rest with wit h tho mystic figure at the head of nazi naz Germany presently Germany presently engaged in a L lightning Inspection of his country's country a new defenses close to the western wester n frontier adjoining France Neither Hitler nor his lieutenants lieutenant t gave any sign they might consider r the new Czechoslovak proposals And the nazis In their controlled d i press and by official protest lo to t I Praha assailed the Czechoslovak government with intensified bitter I ness less I Even en before the tIe cabinet met In I Paris French motorized units were engaged in maneuvers ers close to the German frontier on theother the theother other side aide of which or of more men stood under arms across the breadth of the reich reach In Praha Czechoslovakia's ministers ministers ministers minis minis- grappling with their particular phase of the war or peace problem discussed a new plan to meet the demand for territorial au au- This was understood to offer something similar to Switzerland's Switzerland's Switzerland's Switzer Switzer- lands land's government by cantons Viscount RuncIman British un- un Continued on Pa Page Pace Two Column Two Two Powers rs Warn Hitler Continued from tram Page One On official mediator In the Czechoslovak vak yak Impasse hoped to get the attitude attitude atti atti- tude of Konrad Henlein the Gern ah chieftain chieftain or or rather of tIlt pit l ler r Henlein's toward backer backer toward this plan today or tomorrow From the Balkans came support for what hat Britain has been trying to impress on Hitler that Hitler that he cannot cannot cannot can can- not count on any central European European European Euro Euro- ally with the possible exception exception exception tion of Hungary if it war comes Officials of Rumania and Jugo Jugo- slavia while denying they had given any warning to Germany indicated that their sympathies were with Czechoslovakia with whom they are are linked in the Little Entente i After reading of Sir Nevile's re report report report re- re port on 01 what he believes are German German German Ger Ger- man intentions toward Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia and the German minority demands for tor autonomy it was gener generally lly believed by veteran political observers that Premier Chamberlain asked the ministers these three e questions ns 1 How can Britain check the danger of war 2 What should Britain do in the event of a sudden coup by by Germany Germany Ger- Ger many Or by the sude en Germans of Czechoslovakia 3 3 What machinery should be set setup setup setup up now to take care of an emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency if it comes while parliament parliaments is s i in recess |