760F.62/1150: Telegram
The Ambassador in Germany (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 27—noon.]
501. Editorial comment in the morning papers is devoted to adulatory reiteration of the various points of Hitler’s speech.84 Hitler is depicted as having broken through the network of intrigue and lies created by Beneš to make clear to the world that the decision between war and peace rests only with Beneš. It is emphasized that the Sudetenland is the last remaining territorial demand in Europe.
Prominence is given to the press reaction to the speech in other countries which in general is portrayed as favorable. The noon press, however, states that in Great Britain there still seems to be little understanding of Hitler’s secret demand for the immediate execution of the cession of the Sudetenland already agreed upon by Praha. The inside pages of the papers are full of reports of continued acts of oppression and disorder in Czechoslovakia.
No mention is thus far made in the press of the President’s message to European statesmen nor of Chamberlain’s statement to the press last night.
- Delivered on September 26, in the Sportpalast, Berlin.↩