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Propaganda Funeral. Not so light-hearted were Czechs, although they hoped that the German-Czech crisis had passed. The conversation between Führer Konrad Henlein of the Sudeten (Nazi) party, which claims support of 90% of Czechoslovakia's Sudeten German minority, and Premier Milan Hodza on settlement of the Sudeten grievances, came to a halt last week as Führer Henlein journeyed to Cheb (pop. 31,500), two miles from the German border (see map, p. 15), and near the scene where two Germans were killed fortnight ago, to stage an impressive propaganda funeral...
Before 45,000 cheering Sudetens in the market square, bespectacled, 40-year-old Führer Henlein, onetime gymnasium instructor whose figure is now assuming Göring-like proportions, mounted a black-draped podium and addressed the coffins, covered with red flags bearing the SdP insignia of the Sudetendeutsch Partei. "Fatal bullets struck you, even though you were innocent," he cried. "May your sacrifice be a guiding sign for us." Throaty shouts of "Seig Heil" punctuated the speech of Henlein's stooge, Deputy Karl Hermann Frank, as he defiantly used words from the forbidden Nazi Horst Wessel hymn...
...Direct Action." To the question-Just what does Henlein want?-the Sudeten Führer last week made answer. To G. Ward Price, friend of Adolf Hitler and correspondent for Viscount Rothermere's pro-German London Daily Mail, Henlein declared: "The northwest end of Czechoslovakia forms a sort of foreign appendix in the body of the German Reich. This appendix cannot be allowed to remain in its present state of high inflammation. . . . If such a dangerous condition is neglected, the inflamed appendix would burst one day and instantly infect all Europe with political peritonitis...
...Henlein suggested three alternative appendectomies: 1) Local autonomy for the Sudetens, with municipal rule, education, public services and police left to the community majority; foreign affairs and national affairs affecting the whole country to be administered from Prague. 2) A plebiscite under foreign control to determine whether the Sudetens want to be citizens of Germany or Czechoslovakia. "The result," assured Henlein, "would be a 98% majority for Germany." 3) "The third solution," continued the Führer, "would be simpler still." It is that if Czech repression of the Sudetens continues, their resentment may one day force the German Government...
With two more dynamite-loaded elections coming off, there was every indication last week that President Benes and Premier Milan Hodza will go the limit in an effort to satisfy the minority demands, short of granting actual autonomy. Last week, Hitler's stooge, Sudeten Führer Konrad Henlein was in Vienna conferring with German-Austrian Nazi leaders when Benes cracked down on his followers. All previous attempts to bring Führer Henlein to the conference table for a settlement of minority demands have been futile, but to nerve-frazzled Czechs last week came the reassuring news that...