German Deputy Demands Return Of Sudetenland
BERLIN, Tue. (11.30 a.m.). —A demand for the return ot iidetenland to its former German inhabitants was made m the ierman Bundestag today by Dr Linus Rather, a deputy of Chan•ellor Adenauer’s Conservative Christian Democratic union. He said that 10,000,000 Poles had more land to cultivate t han 70,000,000 Germans.
Most Germans were expelled from ludetenlalid • when the area was reurned to Czechoslovakia after the ' Dr Adenauer minimised the demands or the return of “lost” territories. He asked the world not to over-esti-mate their significance. At a press conference lie expressed regret at the alarmed impression*
these remarks created abroad. Although Dr Adenauer in his policy speech last week pressed for the return of territory east of the OderNeisse Line, he made no claims on the SafH*. Sudetenland or Austria. However, his claim started a scries of speeches by deputies on other lost
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Northern Advocate, 28 September 1949, Page 5
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