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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...
...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 minority in Slovakia...
...Czechoslovakia, some 600 miles long but only 45 to 175 miles wide, has four provinces. Were it a fish the head would be Bohemia, inhabited largely by Czechs with Germans predominating along the western Sudeten border. The body would be the provinces of Moravia & Silesia, largely Czech populated, and Slovakia, thick with Slovaks, who are Slavs like the Czechs. The tail would be Carpathian Ruthenia...
Year later the Allied peacemakers, in the Treaty of St. Germain, set the boundaries for the new nation. To give Czecho-Slovakia a natural barrier which would serve to halt a German push to the east, the Allies, pressed by France and England, forwent strict interpretation of the principle of self-determination and recognized the Czech claim to the Sudeten region, largely populated by Germans. Also included within the frontiers was a small Polish minority in Silesia, a larger Hungarian minority in south Slovakia and the inhabitants of Carpathian Ruthenia, formerly under Hungarian rule, who requested union with...
...Their geographical situation is unfortunate, for Germany will attack from three sides, while the Poles and Hungarians gallop in. Germany might let Hungary take Slovakia...