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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...
...German press, which has been carrying on a vitriolic campaign against Czechoslovakia to aid the Sudeten Germans, splashed the Cheb slayings in blood-red headlines. BRUTAL MURDER OF TWO GERMANS BY CZECHS, screamed Der Angriff, newssheet of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels PRAGUE'S APPALLING BLOOD GUILT...
There are two main reasons why Adolf Hitler should think twice before taking any cue from newsprint polemics and moving armed forces to aid his German racial comrades in the Sudeten territory. The first is that he knows that the Czechs, who have been preparing for 15 years for just such an eventuality, would turn their full-armed strength of 1,500,000 men into the field. The second is that invasion of Czechoslovakia by Hitler would almost certainly bring France, the Soviet Union, and probably Britain rushing to the aid of the Czechs...
...army in charge, the municipal elections on Sunday went off without disorder. The elections were the first in a series of three, the second to be held this week, the third in mid-June, proffered by the Government as one solution of the minority problem. Greatest howl of the Sudetens has been that while they numerically predominate in the border regions, their local governments have been dominated by the Czechs and their administrative posts have been filled with Czech appointees. Among the 1,500 municipalities voting last week only 48 were predominantly German. At last reports most of them...
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...