At last, after all the endless reports of meetings to seemingly no end: actual details! As the above — from the Manchester Guardian (p. 9) — shows, the Czech autonomy proposals (first reported yesterday) were pretty generous. The Sudetens (and presumably other minorities) would get self-government, language equality, their own civil servants and police. I’m […]
Apologies for the fairly ordinary quality of the above (it’s a scan of a photocopy of a microfilm of the original …) but it illustrates a problem with relying on headlines for information, as I’m sure some people did back then as they do today. It’s from the Daily Mail, p. 9, and you can
So, we’re into the second week of the crisis (or rather, the second week for which I have newspaper sources), and as these headlines from The Times indicate (p. 12), the public still doesn’t have much idea as to what’s going on. Just that there have been lots of meetings over the weekend. The leading
More good news, or at least that’s how it is presented. The dailies today all have pretty similar headlines to those from The Times, above (p. 10), but their stories differ in detail. Henlein has met with Hitler and it would seem that they agreed that the Sudetens should negotiate with the Czechs on the
As these headlines from The Times (p. 12) report, it’s ‘a crucial day’, because Henlein is meeting with Hitler at Berchtesgaden to discuss the Czechoslovakian autonomy proposals; and everyone assumes that Hitler will have final say over whether the Sudetens will accept or reject them, as noted in the Manchester Guardian yesterday. Otherwise, there’s not
Things seem to be looking up, judging from today’s headlines in the Manchester Guardian (p. 9). The plan proposed by the Czechs yesterday is said to have ‘impressed’ the Sudetens. The plan itself is still a mystery to the public, but The Times has a few details (p. 12): In many ways — in particular
Not a lot of news today — at least, not a lot of new news. As the above headlines from The Times, p. 10, show, the meetings which were announced on Monday and which took place on Tuesday have, er, taken place, but no public statements have been made about what transpired in them, other
There is some hopeful news today, resulting from the flurry of activity of yesterday. From The Times, p. 10: It became known in London late last night that, as the result of Lord Runciman’s intervention, Dr. Benesh, the President of the Czechoslovak Republic, will receive to-day Herr Henlein, the leader of the Sudeten Germans. It
The Sudeten crisis (or Czech crisis, or Czech-German crisis as it is called here) wasn’t front-page news in the Manchester Guardian on 29 August — it was on page 9. But that was actually where most newspapers put the most important news. Compared with those of today, British newspapers of the 1930s and before seem
Tomorrow I’m starting a bit of an experiment, an idea I had after doing a post on Human Smoke a few months back. We’re coming up on the 70th anniversary of the Sudeten crisis, which, as I noted recently, was a crisis long before Munich had anything to do with it. Long before. The Munich
