A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1857, sig. 109-5/85

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X/ Hot hore Stuntsekce bongegen. % 2I.R The Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia Second evening session of the French radio. Time 21.30 Uhr As reported from Paris, the French ambassador in Berlin Coulondre was instructed to undertake a demarche this evening. He has the mandate to demand from the Reich government the immediate binding of all crimes and the withdrawal of the troops. If he is given a negative answer, C. will declare that the French government will fulfil its obligations and that he will be given the passport. The representative of the Press Association believes that it is possible to share that the formation of a war cabinet is under way, in which, Winston Churchill, Eden, and opposition leaders Greenwood and Archibald Cinclaier are expected to be admitted. As reported from London, the meeting of the House of Commons took place in the late afternoon. Chamberlain, greeted by strong applause, immediately took the lead. He said that he would speak briefly, because at the present moment actions are more necessary than words. A single man, Chamberlain continued, bears the responsibility for the war. The German Chancellor of the Reich plunges the world into misfortune to satisfy his ambition. The proposals of the Reich government, which Poland had allegedly rejected, had in fact never been transmitted to Poland. In his discussion with Ribbentrop, Ambassador Henderson had recommended that the proposals should be addressed to Polish ambassador Lipski. Ribbenrop had replied in the strongest terms that he would never ask the ambassador to visit him. Henderson himself had been read the proposals in German and very quickly. He was told that: