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...first place, the Nazis by their seizure of the Sudeten areas, have set the precedent of claiming nationalities by the conquest of foreign regions and the subsequent creation of new minorities (for many parts of the Sudeten area include as many Czechoslovaks as Germans). What is more, Hitler, in his "glorious" liberation of the submerged Germans, by carefully avoiding mention of the seven hundred thousand Poles in German Silesia or the three hundred thousand Slavs in East Prussia, proves himself to be anything but a champion of submerged peoples. Likewise, in supporting the claims of Poland and Hungary...
...cannot conceal from Your Excellency that the great mistrust with which I am inspired leads me to believe that the acceptance of the principle of the transfer of the Sudeten Germans to the Reich by the Czech Government was given only in the hope thereby to win time so as by one means or another to bring about a change in contradiction of this principle. . . . Adolf Hitler...
...demands in their present form are absolutely and unconditionally unacceptable"; then close with a declaration that "the Czechoslovak Government will be ready to take part in an international conference where Germany and Czechoslovakia, among other nations, would be represented, to find a different method of settling the Sudeten German question...
...House of Commons this week, the Opposition, which had been crying "Shame!" at the Prime Minister and stressing "friendship" for Czechoslovakia without proposing measures of succor, was politically thunderstruck. It was obvious that the Czechs & Slovaks may find it good business to get rid of 3,250,000 Sudeten Germans in exchange for a loan of $150,000,000−or about $46 per blond Sudeten squarehead. The startled House could not but suspect that smart Dr. Benes had been secretly tipped off by Mr. Chamberlain beforehand as to how much wiser it might prove financially to yield the Sudetenland...