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PRAGUE--The Czechoslovak government, claiming a diplomatic victory over Hungary with Chancellor Adolf Hitler's support, today reported fighting between Czech and Hungarian soldiers in Slovakia province following an invasion of Czech soil. The new clash between Czech and Hungarian soldiers followed announcement that the two nations will resume negotiations immediately for settlement of Hungary's territorial demands...
...Government made the smart move of granting autonomy within the Republic to the Slovaks and leaving the new Slovak Cabinet, which was at once set up under Premier Dr. Jozef Tiso, to undertake the thankless job of negotiating with Hungary, which has claimed slices of Czechoslovakia. In Slovak areas Hungarians had hoped to find some of that "yearning" for Hungary which the Sudetens felt for Germany. However, as soon as the Slovaks were given some of the chance to act big which they have long been denied in Czechoslovakia, they started being niggardly with Budapest about giving back the Hungarian...
...latest reports the Slovak-Hungarian parley at Komarno had given Budapest no territory except the town of Ipolysag and the Slovak portion of Satoraljaujhely on the border. Hungary was asking 6,000 square miles with a population of 1,200,000 but was apparently getting no backing in this demand from Germany...
...Warsaw and in Budapest last week the overwhelming will of two highly emotional peoples to grab slices of Czechoslovakia was such that Poland and Hungary would certainly have overthrown their Cabinets, had not Polish Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz and Hungarian Regent Nicholas Horthy been 100% in accord with popular opinion. A slice of defeated Hungary containing 1,000,000 Magyars was carved off in 1920 by the Allies to help make up Czechoslovakia...
...when Poland was at war with the Soviet Union, the Czechoslovak Army occupied the Teschen area in Poland, with about 200,000 population. Thus, last week Poles and Hungarians did not regard Czechoslovakia as a virgin land which Germany had just been permitted to rape, did not regard themselves as rapists eager for a second and third outrage. On the contrary, fervent Polish and Hungarian crowds shrieked in the streets for what they were convinced was "Justice!'' Poland, powerfully armed, last week had 500,000 of her 1,500,000 soldiers lined up to invade Czechoslovakia. The threat...