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...Stalin blood purge, the Chamberlain tribulations, the Blum uncertainties and the collapse of Austria. Smart, quick, the President rushed into effect measures he hoped would insure peace between Czechoslovakia and Germany. The 3,200,000 Czechoslovaks who are radically German and whose principal leader is blatant Nazi Konrad Henlein-involved only a few months ago in a homosexual scandal -are to be given by a bill announced by the Cabinet last week the right to fill, in each part of Czechoslovakia, proportionately as many Government civil service jobs as there are Germans in the district concerned. This will make...
...Kaiser but of the Austrian Kaiser-that is they are Austrians who find themselves and their old homes now in the new state of Czechoslovakia. From the Sudetes Mountains many of them take the name of Sudetendeutsch, and leader of the Sudetendeutsch Partei is pudgy but strenuous Herr Konrad Henlein. He was embarrassed recently by the arrest of his chief henchman, Hans Henrich Rutha, and 16 young men as homosexuals...
...distract public opinion from this, Herr Henlein made a much-advertised visit to England, returned last week to announce that he had found "widespread sympathy" for all Germans in London, precipitated a free fight between Sudetendeutsch members of the Czechoslovak Parliament, who had come to hail Leader Henlein, and Czechoslovak police who did not know that these zealots who tried to break through their lines were persons with parliamentary immunity. The cracked crowns of the deputies were to be investigated by Parliament committee, but Adolf Hitler's press was screaming with such rage at latest reports that Eduard Benes...
There were general parliamentary elections throughout Czechoslovakia last week, and to the acute distaste of most of Prague, Führer Henlein's party topped every other in the country with 1,294,000 votes against the Agrarian's second highest: 1,176,000. Because of the country's voting system, the Czech Agrarian party still will have the largest number of seats in parliament. Prague observers found democracy in Czechoslovakia still in no immediate danger, but it was a close call, demanded immediate rebuilding of political fences...
...Germany beer halls echoed with jubilant shouts of ''Heil Henlein!'', while in Czechoslovakia Führer Henlein was still paying lip service to bearded old President Thomas Masaryk...