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Germans to give whole-hearted allegiance to the State. On the whole, their "sufferings", have been much exaggerated for pur-
As poses of propaganda. minority, they have been accord- Kong.ed.good treatment, enjoying the civil freedom that forms an in- tegral part of the Czech-Slovakian democracy. President Masaryk, and, after him, President Benes, have been leaders with excep tionally fine ideals and tolerant views. In certain respects, not- ably educational facilities, the German minority were better off All communications intended for than the Czechs and Slovaks., They received many special con- publication should be addressed to cessions, in February of last year, by an agreement between the the Sudeten the Editor, and be accompanied by Government and
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ported that "the 18th February has enabled the Germans to make the greatest national and cul- tural advance recorded since the establishment of the Republic." The quota of Germans taken into the State services, for example, was larger than the German share in the national population. The Germans have enjoyed full political rights, representation in' Parliament, and even three
Hong Kong, Monday, May 30, 1938. places in the Cabinet.
CZECHS AND GERMANS
President Benes and the Pre- mier, Dr. Hodza, have made clear Czecho-Slovakia's earnest and genuine desire to satisfy all legi- timate demands of the German minority, to settle a problem that Both in their nature and their tends to spread unrest among FOR SMART LADIES! tone, the demands of the Sudeten their Polish and Hungarian Germans upon the Czecho- minorities, and to keep on good Slovakian Government now at terms with Germany. On the JUST UNPACKED A NEW last submitted in official form are préservation of their democratic beyond what the Czech Govern-liberties, their national integrity, SHIPMENT OF FLATTERING ment could possibly accept. and their national alliances, how- Whether that. is important or not ever, they stand firmly, resolute STRAWS THAT EVERY LADY depends upon the Sudetic Ger-in refusing to brook any unwar- WILL LOVE! CHARMING PRO-mans. They have agreed to en-ranted interference.
ter into negotiations, which it is presumed, their willingness to compromise on the As LORS, NEW WIDER BRIMS more controversial points.
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autonomy for the German minor- The secret recipe for making ity in Czecho-Slovakia in order "morocco," the special ale brew- to set up a Nazified regime: the led from time to time at Levens abandonment of the republic's Hall, Westmorland, and never alliances with France, Russia, drunk until it is twenty-one years and the little Entente; and the old, is now shared by two people. granting of opportunities for For last week Mr. Robin Bagot Germany to expand southwards took to himself a bride. -- and through Central Europe. In the rule is that "the Lord and other words, a minority of one-Lady of the Manor may know and fifth of the republic's population the secret of “Morocco," is insisting that the other four-only they shall know. fifths, in the form of the estab-i Another famous and lished State, shall dissolve their more ancient ale with a secret political constitution, change recipe and a fancy name is brag- their traditional foreign policy, get which is brewed by the senior and give up their freedom. This beadle of Barum (Barnstaple) "fundamental solution" of the for consumption at the annual Sudeten German problem, would charter fair. This tipple is be- mean the dismemberment of lieved to recall the early English Czecho-Slovakia. No course is and Celtic tradition by having a open to the Czech Cabinet but to substantial amount of honey in contest the impossible features its ingredients; most of the an- of these demands, but they, will cient drinks with wonderful do so in a spirit of reasonableness names: for examples, metheg-. which should inspire a similar lin, hydromel, ypocras, copus, · quality in the Henlein negotia- and garhiofilac were based on tors. The warning that the pro- honey, as extant recipes show. blem is of extreme urgency, and An interesting eighteenth- that Czecho-Slovakian delays will century recipe, of which no secret create “an intolerable atmos-was made, describes the concoc- phere," are reminiscent, only too tion which Lord Pembroke, unhappily, of similar warnings to grandfather of Lord Palmerston, Austria before, the invasion of used to recommend to his guests Czecho-Slovakia's neighbour. with the words, “I can answer The German-speaking. popula-for my port, for I made it my- tion in the Sudeten area has, it self." To forty gallons of cider is true, some genuine grievances. his lordship added eight gallons Some of the official discrimina- of genuine port wine and buf- tion against them might have ficient brandy to fill the hogshead. been avoided, especially in the Elder tops were then stuffed in to earlier and more difficult days of give the "wine", roughness, and the new republic. Much of it, cochineal was used to correct the however, was unavoidable, aris- colour. It sounds like a promis- ing out of the language difficulty ing emetic, but Georgian and the unwillingness the stomachs were strong.
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