CZECHOSLOVAK FRONTIERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1938, Page 8

CZECHOSLOVAK FRONTIERS.

It is hard to see •why the Sudetens* twolto to eceede from Czechoslovakia should be eon* sidered a? either morally unjustifiable or physically impotviUle of accomplishment. The poetiwar revelations of ilr. Lloyd Oeorge should suffice to disillusion those who still regard the frontiers of that republic as sacrosanct. A» repards the assumed physical impassibility of secession, we have , , in the first place, the undeniable fact that many of the Bohemian border areas are almost entirely German in population. The second point is that there is little force in the argument that the detachment of these region*: would still leave about three-quarters of a million Hermans lost in the midst of the Czechoslovak mass. Whf should not a new frontier line be drawn in such a way as to create a balance of minority populations, as, many Czechs in Sudetenland as Gersnniirs in the now reduced Republic of Czechoslovakia? A ' jrradual transference of minorities could then be made, a proceee for which there lias been ample precedent since the fireat War. One lias only to think of the exchange of populations that followed the fJraeco-Turkkh conflict. K. F. TADDOCK, M.A.