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ADVERSARIA
“QOIQUE TU FASSES, garde-toi de hair. Whatever you do, do not hate."
Romain. Rolland, French author, Nobel Prize Winner in 1915, preach- Yet he ed this sentence to others. himself hates; hates murder, des- truction; war, Haggard, piercing- eyed, nervous, he cried "peace" to the men who make war. Then came the war.
Clemenceau, ““The Tiger," pronounced a ban upon him and exil-
Hong Kong, Tuesday, July 26, 1988. ed him from France had his name
crossed out of the textbooks.
And now, after almost 20 years of Romain Bolland
GREATER OPTIMISM banishment,
IN EUROPE
is returning home. The man who all his life struggled for the peace of others, returns to his homeland,
The greater optimism in Europ-at the age of 72, to find peace for ean political and diplomatic quar- himself. ters, a development of conferen- ces and odd interviews last week
REPORTS suggest that the Tokyo
apt soon to have a bad in which Britain, Germany and Cabinet is
first France have been concerned, does case of "jitters. For the not mean that the danger of time in quite a while someone has serious friction over Czechoslo- neglected to tremble when threaten- vakia is altogether eliminated. It ed with dire happenings if they did seems to mean this, however, that not concede the might of Dai Nip there is more confidence that pon. It has been recently predicted the chances of "direct action" by that someday, somebody's bluff would Herr Hitler in support of Hen- be called Sho lein pressure on Dr. Hodza are remote and that, therefore, Herr
SOME NATIONS who posses but Henlein; too, will probably see little gold and silver-have lots of the force behind dictates of com- brass... promise.
Such details as have been pub- WITH CENTRAL EUROPE lished of, the Czech proposals for screaming and resting at 48-hour solution of the nationalities pro-intervals, it might not be a bad idea blem reveal a genuine endeavour to get down an encyclopedia and to meet the requirements of the study the preliminaries to the Sudėtic Germans, where they do World war. There is an immense, not encroach upon the integrity rough parallel in the situation to- of the State as a whole. They day and that of 1914, and although do offer a promising basis for we should not be too slick at draw- negotiations, if a spirit of good-ing conclusions, it has its academic will is brought to them. Herr interests.r Henlein seems to be open suasion.
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THIS HEAVY PATTERN of fate Anyone who has followed is what is frightening Europe to the evolution of the Hen- day. It is quite evident that its leinite viewpoint during the past racial prides are not modified, that four years must have noticed the voice of reason is a still small how it has become much more voice in the world. But we say radical with the increased milit- “burny, burny” to babies, and ulti- ary strength of the Third Reichmately they learn to shun hot and especially since the occupa- stoves. tion of Austria. The Sudeten Ger-j man Party's early outstanding success was obtained in the 1935 election. During the campaign
T. C. G..
which preceeded it, Herr Henlein, within the same state. in his Bohmisch Leipa speech The problem of the Sudeten clearly defined and rejected Germans had long ago ceased to National Socialism. “Just as be one of minority rights and Fascism and National Socialism became a struggle for equality of emphasise their peculiar origin, status as between Czechs and so must we, Sudeten" · Germans, Germans in Czechoslovakia. The always manifest the peculiarities Czechs themselves are willing to of our social and political endea-admit that they have made mis- vours for renewal despite our takes in their treatment of the general ran-German cultural Germans, but that "the Czechs One thing I must, have done nothing to win us however, emphasise. We shall over to the idea of this state" is never renounce liberality the an exaggeration, to say the least, unconditional respect of personal in view of the increased conces rights, as the basic attitude in sions which have been granted determining the relations between from year to year. Statistics as human beings in general and the to the number of German schools, relations between citizens and financial aid for cultural and government..
economic, purposes in the Sudeten This is in contrast to Herr German “areas * confirm this Henlein's recent words: "Despite opinion. "Depreciation of what
union-
the political boundaries of the the Czechs have done certainly se
Equality of
state, we, as part of the German does not help the Sudeten Ger- nation, cannot withdraw from a man cause in the eyes of the un- Weltanschauung which is to-day biased observer. joyfully confessed by all Germans status for the German and Czech the world over ... We confess languages, the appointment of the principles of National Social- German officials and self-govern-: ism. They inspire our thoughts ment for the German districts and actions. We shall, within are some of the recent Henlein the framework of the law, fashion demands which the Czechoslovak our lives according to them." Government appears willing
Hence, to the complication
roblem has now.
But there are") demands which are both
present form an
ith the democratic