CZECHOSLOVAKIAN AFFAIRS
NO GERMAN AUTONOMY OUTSIDE PRESSURE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright. ' PRAGUE, March 29. The Government reply to the demands of the 3,500,000 German minority in Czechoslovakia was announced in a broadcast speech by Dr. M. Hodza, the Prime Minister, wno said » new minority statute was being drawn up on a legal bas.e for a final settlement of the question. This would consolidate in one systematic charter all existing rights and concessions and would apply not only to Germans but to all national minorities. Dr. Hodza, however, made it clear that the Government would not concede the Henlein's claim for autonomy, and added: We shall not submit to any pressure from outside, either economic, moral or political.” Dr. Hodza said Mr. Chamberlain last Thursday proved that Britain was not only maintaining interest in Central Europe, but was intensifying and strengthening it.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13820, 30 March 1938, Page 5
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