760F.62/1340: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Kennedy) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 30—6:55 a.m.]
1098. I just talked with Masaryk. He said that the British Minister appeared at 10 a.m. in Praha and told them that an answer to the proposal must be received from the Czech Government by 12 o’clock. Masaryk thinks that the proposal will probably be accepted but with the feeling that they have been sold down the river. He told me that a great many of the financial responsibilities of Czechoslovakia such as money spent on fortifications were assumed at the suggestion of the British and French. He also told me that 10 days ago at the suggestion of the British and French they ordered mobilization which is costing them $10,000,000 a day and for all these expenses which the British and French had them incur they are offered nothing.
He says the plan is a little better than the Hitler offer.