DEMOCRATS OF SLOVAKIA
CZECH PREMIER’S ATTACK (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON. June 9. In a bitter attack on the Democrats of Slovakia, Mr Klemens Gottwald, the Communist Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia, accuses them of being reactionaries under capitalistic influence and being in contact with antiCzechoslovakisfemigres abroad, reports the “Daily Mail’s” correspondent in Prague. Mr Gottwald adds that the Democratic Party has made protestations of loyalty in the past, but now guarantees will be demanded that Slovakia will desist from its present ways and security for the state will be demanded. The correspondent says the Democrats hold 62 per cent, of the Slovak seats in Parliament and as they are mainly Roman Catholics they strongly oppose Communism. The correspondent of the Associated Press says Slovakia has served plain notice that it will fight any effort in the forthcoming Czechoslovakian constitution to give it less than the virtual autonomy within the republic. This strong stand, which has been taken against a recent wave of Government statements from Prague, suggests that Czechoslovakia may have a show-down on future unity.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25206, 10 June 1947, Page 7
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