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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1938, Page 5

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SUDETENS & PROPOSED APPOINTMENTS CRITICISM OF PREMIER’S DECISION SLOVAKS PRESSING DEMANDS FOR AUTONOMY By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. PRAGUE, August 20. _ The Sudeten Deutsch organ, “Zeit,” characterises the decisipn of Dr Hodza, Premier of Czechoslovakia, to appoint Sudeten Germans to several important posts as “friendly but fruitless if it is supposed to satisfy the Sudeten demands.” A further complication in the dispute, however, is provided by the Slovak autonomists’ intensifying their pressure since the death of their leader, Father Hlinka. They have tabled an Autonomy Bill, demanding their own Parliment, army, and liberty of language. Dr Hodza informed Lord Runciman at the end of last week that seven postmasterships in the Sudetenland were being allotted to officials of German nationality within a fortnight, also further posts in the overseers’ departments at Troppau and Brno. It was stated also that the Minister of the Interior would shortly appoint four Germans as district governors in the neighbourhood of the Czecho-German frontier, and that Cabinet would further discuss a proposal to appoint a German to the Presidency of the Regional Court at Cheb while early information would be given to Lord Runciman of the allotment of important posts under the Ministries of Railways and Finance. In acknowledging the information, Lord Runciman welcomed the action taken.