760F.62/1342: Telegram
The Minister in Czechoslovakia (Carr) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 30—11:10 a.m.]
262. Text of Munich Agreement6 delivered to Minister of Foreign Affairs by German Chargé d’Affaires at 6 o’clock this morning. The Government is now in session considering course to be taken.7 The agreement provides for progressive evacuation and occupation by Germany of Sudeten area predominantly German without disturbance [Page 703] of fortifications beginning tomorrow and finishing October 10. The procedure of evacuation and the areas in which plebiscites are to be held to be determined by an international commission consisting of the German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the British, French, and Italian Ambassadors at Berlin and a member appointed by Czechoslovak Government. Latter with military expert is invited to meeting in Berlin at 5 this afternoon. Plebiscitary areas are to be occupied by international formations until conclusion of plebiscites. A protocol provides for British-French guarantee of new frontiers against unprovoked attack and German and Italian guarantee when Polish and Hungarian question shall have been settled. Full text follows as soon as translation and coding can be completed.8
- Signed September 29 between Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy; British Documents, 3d ser., vol. ii, doc. No. 1224, p. 627, or German Documents, ser. D, vol. ii, doc. No. 675, p. 1014.↩
- The Department was informed 2 hours later in telegram No. 264, September 30, 3 p.m., from the Minister in Czechoslovakia, that the agreement had been accepted (760F.62/1367).↩
- Telegram No. 263, from the Minister in Czechoslovakia, September 30, 2 p.m., not printed.↩