NAZI DEMANDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23280, 24 February 1939, Page 9

NAZI DEMANDS

CZECH GOVERNMENT "EXCLUSIVE" RIGHTS POST IN THE CABINET REINSTATE OFFICIALS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received February 23, 7.15 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 23 The Nazi deputy in the Czechoslovak Party, Herr Kundt, after a three-days visit to Berlin, says the Prague correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, demands exclusive rights for Germans in Czechoslovakia beyond the present minority rights; his own appointment as German Minister within the Czech Cabinet to enable supervision of these rights; permission to found a Nazi Party, membership of which will be open to Czechs, and the reinstatement of German former officials in Government posts. The Czech Foreign Minister, Dr. Chvalkovsky, in a speech to the National Unity Party, said that Czecho-Slovakia must not provoke Providence or allow the Munich agreement to be the prelude to a new catastrophe. Many difficulties as the result of the Munich Pact must still be overcome. They must aim at the preservation of their frontiers and their national independence.

Propaganda aimed at creating illusions about the revival of former conditions must cease. Good relations with Germany were necessarily of the utmost importance. Germans in Czecho-Slovakia would not enjoy special privileges but the same rights as Czechs. If Germans desired to profess Nazi-ism they must not be prevented. Czepho-Slovakia would not survive another crisis and was not yet out of danger.