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Birth, 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...
...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 the new nation. Thus, Czechoslovakia today (see map) includes some...
...Sudeten Pains. The third and best reason for the President's optimism is his belief that he can patch up his troublesome minority demands, particularly of the Sudetens, and thus spike Hitler's handiest excuse for an invasion. Father Andreas Hlinka, leader of a Slovak ecclesiastical party, has demanded autonomy for his racial group, but his party polled less votes than in previous years in the recent municipal elections. Other minority protests pull even less weight. But one Czechoslovakian minority problem the world will not forget in a hurry is that of the Sudetens...
Five years ago, say the Czechs, nobody was aware of the sad plight of the Sudetens. The Czech contention is that Adolf Hitler has dramatized whatever case the Sudetens have into a vast and phoney political extravaganza. But the Sudeten Germans have caught the harsh and compelling sound of the Nazi bands just over the mountains, have listened to Nazi oratory and fallen under the spell of Adolf Hitler's pan-Germanism. Ninety percent of them voted as a unit for Konrad Hen-lein's Sudetendeutsch Partei in the local elections. Nothing unites a group like a grievance...
...Sudetens, next to Poland's Ukrainians, constitute the largest national minority in Europe. The Slavs held the Sudeten region as early as the Sixth Century but in the Twelfth Germans filtered in as monks, townsmen, traders, artisans. They naturally became the manufacturers of the 19th Century Bohemian industrial revolution. Favored by the Habsburg regime, they looked down on their agricultural Czech, Slovak neighbors. In the post-War years, when the Czechs became the top-dogs they turned the national trade to their allies and friends, which dried up Sudeten markets in Austria, Hungary, gradually supplanted German capital with Czech...