CONTENTS
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Preface
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Eight-Point Demand of Sudeten German Party, Outlined by
Konrad Henlein, a t Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia, April
24. 1938
401
Statement on the German-Czech Situation b y Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons, M a y 2 3 ,
1938
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Memorandum Submitted t o t h e Czechoslovak Government b y
the Sudeten German Party, J u n e 7 , 1 9 3 8
403
Text of Official Summary of the " F o u r t h Plan," Submitted
to the Sudeten German P a r t y by the Czechoslovak Gov­
ernment, September 6, 1 9 3 8
4°5
Text of Address Broadcast b y Eduard BeneS, President of
Czechoslovakia, September 10, 1 9 3 8
4°7
Extracts from Speech by Chancellor Adolf Hitler a t the Na­
tional Socialist Party Congress a t Nuremberg, Germany,
September 12, 1 9 3 8
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Text of Sudeten German Party Communique Containing
Terms of Ultimatum to the Czechoslovak Government,
September 13, 1 9 3 8
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Text of Konrad Henlein's Declaration for Annexation of
Sudeten German Region of Czechoslovakia b y Germany,
September 1 5 , 1 9 3 8
418
Extract from Address b y Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy
a t Trieste, September 1 8 , 1 9 3 8
418
Text of Czechoslovak Government Communiqu6 of September
2 1 , 1 9 3 8 , Announcing Acceptance of Anglo-French Plan
for Meeting German Demands
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Extract from Speech b y Maxim Litvinoff, Foreign Commissar
of the U.S.S.R., before the League of Nations Assembly,
September 2 1 , 1 9 3 8
421
Text of White Paper Published b y the British Government on
September 2 8 , 1 9 3 8 , Containing Documents on the
Czechoslovak-German Crisis
Document I—Letter of Lord Runciman t o Prime Minister
Chamberlain, September 2 1 , 1 9 3 8
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Document II—Anglo-French Proposals of September 1 9 ,
1938
. 430
Document III—Prime Minister Chamberlain's Letter of
September 2 3 , 1 9 3 8 , t o Chancellor Hitler
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* Document IV—Chancellor Hitler's Reply of September
23, 1938
Document V—Prime Minister Chamberlain's Second Letter
of September 2 3 , 1 9 3 8 , to Chancellor Hitler
Document VI—The Hitler Memorandum (the Godesberg
Demands)
Document VII—The Czech Reply . . . . . . _. . .
Document VIII—Letter of Czechoslovak Minister in
London t o the British Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, September 2 6 , 1 9 3 8
Document IX—Prime Minister Chamberlain's Letter of
September 2 6 , 1 9 3 8 , to Chancellor Hitler
Document X—Chancellor Hitler's Reply of September 2 7 ,
1938
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Text of Prime Minister Chamberlain's Address in the House of
Commons, September 2 8 , 1 9 3 8
Text of Official Communique Issued a t Munich, Germany, a t
the E n d of the Four-Power Conference, September 2 9 ,
1938
Text of Joint Communique Issued a t Munich b y Chancellor
Hitler and Prime Minister Chamberlain, September 3 0 ,
1938
Text of Speech b y Chancellor Adolf Hitler a t Eger, Following
Its Annexation by German Forces, October 3 , 1 9 3 8 . . .
Extracts from Speeches Made in the British Parliament in
the Debate on Foreign Affairs, October 3 , 1 9 3 8
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Text of Eduard BeneS's Letter of Resignation as President
of Czechoslovakia, October 5 , 1 9 3 8
Text of Communique Announcing the Abandonment of Plebis­
cites, October 1 3 , 1 9 3 8
Texts of Notes Exchanged between the United States, Ger­
many, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, and France on the
Crisis in Europe
Message President Franklin D. Roosevelt Sent Direct to the
President of Czechoslovakia and the Chancellor of Ger­
many, and through the Secretary of State to the Prime
Ministers of Great Britain and France, September 2 6 , 1 9 3 8
Reply of President Eduard Bene§ of Czechoslovakia, Sep­
tember 2 6 , 1 9 3 8
Reply of Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany
Reply of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great
Britain
Reply of Premier Edouard Daladier of France
Message from President Roosevelt to Chancellor Hitler,
September 2 7 , 1 9 3 8
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