NEW CZECH CABINET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1938, Page 8

NEW CZECH CABINET

FOLLOWING ON SLOVAK RESIGNATION LIBERAL DAILY URGES CHANGE IN POLICY ALIGNMENT WITH GERMANY (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) PRAGUE, October 4. The Cabinet, which resigned at 8 p.m. has been reconstituted under General Sirovy, who retains the portfolio of National Defence. Other appointments are: Foreign Affairs, M Chivalkovsky, formerly Minister to Rome; Minister of the Interior, Dr Czerny; Minister of Finance, M Kalfus; Minister of Social Welfare, M Zenkl; Minister with portfolio, M Bukhovsky, Sokol president. The cabinet included three Slovaks, M M Karvas, Caidas and Sajnor, who have no political affiliations. A Slovak Minister, M Cermak, carried cut his threatened resignation earlier on the ground that proposals from the Government for the satisfaction of the Slovak autonomist demands were inadequate. The first authoritative indication of a forthcoming change in Czechoslovakian foreign policy ‘3 given in an editorial in the Liberal Daily, “Lidovy Noviny,’ under the heading “Good-bye France.” It declares that the future of Czechoslovakia is linked up with Germany. “We have played long enough the role of policeman,” the paper observes. “We have been deserted in a world governed by force, not by law; therefore our place is alongside force. There is nothing left for us, but to get along with Germany, even in commercial relations. We must refrain from combinations aligning us against Germany. We must recognise Herr Hitler and Signor Mussoline as more powerful than France, which is threatened from three sides.”