In daily broadcasts and in print, the propaganda machine in Berlin insisted that the three million members of the German-speaking population of the Sudetenland were being persecuted by the majority Czech population in the region. Cavalcades of correspondents could find no evidence of this. If anything, it was the Czech speakers who were suffering at the hands of pro-Nazi thugs in the disputed territory. In meetings with the French, American and British ambassadors, Hitler launched ferocious assaults on what he called the Jewish-owned press of those countries and their vile attempts to smear the German people and its government. In London, the government refused to join France in pledging to come to the aid of Czechoslovakia, should that nation be attacked. As a result, the French government collapsed, the eighth administration to do so in three years. In Washington, President Roosevelt suggested a conference of all European leaders, to include the Russian government, in order to negotiate an end to the crisis.
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