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...banned in October 1933 together with all other parties that would not subscribe to the principles of democracy. Since then Berlin's foreign policy has grown wiser and shrewder. There suddenly appeared on Czechoslovakia's political horizon an earnest, near-sighted German-speaking gymnasium instructor named Konrad Henlein, organizer of a party known as the Sudetendeutsch Heimat Front. Ceaselessly he has repeated that he takes no orders from Adolf Hitler, has no intention of preaching political union with Germany. But S. H. F. meetings use all the Nazi slogans and devices. The party has attracted dozens of German...