TENSION GROWS
GERMANS REFUSE TO MEET CZECH PREMIER PROBLEM OF MINORITIES INTENSIFIED GOVERNMENT TAKES FIRM STAND (Recd This Day, 11.50 am.) LONDON, May 20. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Prague correspondent says the political committee of the Henlein Party in a declaration, makes clashes between Czechs and Germans an excuse for a refusal to meet the Premier (Dr Hodza) to discuss the Minorities Statute. The document contains the gravely significant statement that the committee cannot restrain individual Germans from exercising the right of elementary self defence. “Coming on the eve of the elections, it is added, the talks between Dr Hodza and Herr Henlein are calculated to create the worst possible atmosphere, and will possibly lead to the gravest consequences.” This is regarded as a deliberate attempt to wreck the negotiations and encourage the Sudeten Germans to greater violence. Dr Hodza announced that negotiations with the German and other minorities were beginning immediately. Whatever happened, Czechoslovakia would stand fast to her allies. He guaranteed that his Government would fulfil reasonable Nationalist demands, but would suppress terrorism rigorously.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1938, Page 8
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175TENSION GROWS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1938, Page 8
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