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the lines, for that is inevitable, that has excited apprehension, but that it should be done as a work of emergency, at the cost even of some dislocation of civil- jan life, to be finished within a fixed time. For what object? If one were to inquire of the in- formed in Europe they would give one of three answers. The most hopeful would say that since Germany fears that she may be interfered with by France, or by France and Britain, in settling the Czech problem (however she may propose to settle it). she is giving herself greater freedom of Traction by building an impregnable Hong Kong, Friday, September 16, 1988 line of defences; she does in
effect, say
to the West "You can no longer interfere... A middle school would say that her inten-> tion is ruder-plain intimidation. The official communique on Mr. A third school, which is as autho Chamberlain's informal personal ritative as the other two, goes farther still and believes that talk with Herr Hitler tells very Germany has only made so tre little. The universal approval mendous an effort because she of the Premier's "action was contemplates settling the Czech in ratio to the despair which question, if she thinks fit, by orce. The nervous anxiety that had grown up with the crisis, but is reported from inside Germany whether there is real hope indicates that there, too, what- for an
improved atmosphere ever precise view is taken of likely to be translated into these military measures, it is not a pleasant one. For the moment action a question which can there is a calm until the effects of only be answered by events. In Mr. Chamberlain's nobly conceiv- the meantime, it would be un-ed trip are discernible, the com- wise to take anything for grant-munique issued is rather a dam- ed and to assume that the danger is.past. The answer is still with Berlin. All other troubles could Mr. Ephraim Very Ott be got over were it certain that Germany is prepared, in spite of At last, one of those specula- the serious incidents in Czecho- tive libel actitns against a novel- ist by someone who happened to Slovakia's Sudeten German areas have the same name as a charac in the last few days, to allow the ter in a book has failed. Too often Czechs and the Henlein Party to in the past juries, influenced pos- thrash out their problems for sibly by tales of the vast sums earned by novelists for noth- themselves, free of outside inter- ing but just scribbling"---have of any kind, particularly awarded absurdly heavy damages
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pener than otherwist
ragement to intransig-in actions of this sort. In this
a
of
instance, even the jury came to ence. The main factors wh
the conclusion that it was have been disquieting, Europe "try, on, but for writers the have not yet been changed by the risk has become so great that electrifying new approach of the they may be driven to create only virtuous and estimable char- Chamberlain visit. The violent
acters (this would put many mod- campaigning of the German press ern novelists out of business) or against the Czechs continues. to call their personages simply A and B. However fantastic the against Czecho-Slovakia. It is
name that one may choose, it is possible to argue that this may not safe indeed, the more fan- have no more serious intention tastic, the more dangerous. There than to put pressure on the is the famous case of Mark Twain who evolved from Hla inner con- Czechs by intimating
them
sciousness the incredible name of that the "patience" of Germany Mulberry Sellers and more than in the face of Czech "prov one real Mulberry Bellera wrote,
protesting that he had been lib- tlons" is, from day to day,
elled. Ephraim Very Ott, Orig- most at an end. It is, howe much more than possible, it
that this upsleeping pro-
indly Bugg, Nimrod Boggi, F, a
Fish, Rover. Jordan, Morning Dew, Adam Smart Officer-im-
is designed to keep the possible names, you say? No, ** they are all figure in the files of in & the Ministry of Lal Claims mo-Land Record Office at
German peop