Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford

…British Cabinet dispatched the elderly Lord Walter Runciman to mediate, but Henlein rejected the program of concessions he finally arranged with Beneš. As the prospect of war increased, the British appeasers grew more frantic. In the spring the editor of the leftist New Statesman thought “armed resistance to the dictators…

…to the mission of Lord Runciman, whose avowed purpose was to observe and report on conditions within the country.