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THE preix Special to the Telegraph
WAR
CZECHOSLOVAKIA is
the very heart of the Allied war against Hitler. It was the first victim of the policy of appeasement. It was the first prey thrown to the tiger.
It may prove to be the least digestible of his succes- sive feasts...
соп-
How Will Hitler Fall?-3
by George Slocombe
the famous Foreign Correspondent
DR BENES. coming.
"He saw this war He knew the dunger of
Hitlerism??
come a listening race,
to the Adriatic, there must be markets, and joint collaboration They listen in silence. But an muguarded passage, an un- for security and defence. their silonce is pregnant with locked door.
This agreement is not ex- abide their time. meaning. They listen, and
"Germany is now living in a clusive. It is open to other States. world surrounded by hate. She Hungary and Austria would bo They know the history of has cheated, lied, bullied, tor- welcomed as partners in such a their race. They know the tured, plundered and oppressed. Group,
And a federation or union of history of the Germans. Hope All her neighbours hate her with has lightened even darker an increasing hatred...
Poland, Czechoslovakta, Hungary hours than these. They have "How could it be otherwise? and Austria, and possibly also of learned to possess their souls The Czech, the Pole, the Belgian, advantage of creating a great Jugoslavia, would have the in patience,
the Norwegian, the Dutchman, incompatible races of Europe,
resistance.
Royalty?
Ru-
Our enemies in the last war were defeated by the Czechs. The collapse of the Central Empires was due in part to the revolu- tion wrought within that vast and formidable- looking facade of power. But they are inactive. If open the Frenchman cannot forgive the Teuton and the Slav. and tyranny-even vaster revolt is, as yet, too dangerous and forget such injuries to his and more formidable--if the terrible massacre of the national independence, his pri
Czech students in Prague in vate liberty, his property, land looking than the
I then raised the delicate serves and cattle, down to the humblest question of the Habsburgs, The quered Empire now ruled November, 1939, still
them as a warning-they are not of his possessions.
much-mooted return of that by Hitler-by 器 few
content with a mere passive "It is to these scores of mil- dynasty to the throne of Hun- resolute men.
lions of people that we have to gary or Austria, or of both, was The story of the Czech
appeal. Mounting Tale
always the King Charles Head revolt is one of the forgotten
"We know that our broadcasts of the Danubian States after the The mounting tale of arrests, night and day are reaching the lust war. epics of 1914-1918. Two men executions, deportations to the mark because of the infuriating. It formed the only solid link led it-the tall, scholarly, labour camps in Germany, at- effect they have on the Germans, between Czechoslovakia, mild and modest Thomas tests the stubbornness of the and the increasing amount at mania and Jugoslavia. And in Garrigue Masaryk; the Czech opposition to the invader. time and passion they devote to pre-Anschluss days a Habsburg
A number of cases of sabotage replying to them.
restoration was considered as the have occurred in the Czech.
"Their technique is the usual certain portent of war. factories notably the Skoda Goebbels technique-insults, in- But Jan Masaryk refused to works at Pilsen-and on the ventions, lies, absurdities. The be scared by this bogy.
"Anybody who is against railways. "I have been Bencs for Twenty
latest story spread about mo by Hitler is my friend," he said. Until a few weeks ago the the German radio is that I am "And until this war is won I years. I have seen him move statesmen at Geneva to admira. German authorities still believed a Jew and that I am not in will not engage in any contro- tion by his astonishing perspica-potwithstanding the massacre London, but in Montevideo. versy with anyone who agrees
of the students and the other "But the Czechs know very with me in fighting Hitler. MR Yosuke Matsuoka, the city. Japanese Foreign Minister, re- turns from his pilgrimage to the Axis shrine in Europe and his homage-paying call on Joseph Stalin to show a paper promise as payment for, his strenuous efforts. Japan and Russia have contracted to observe neutrality towards cach other for five years no matter what war their countries may be engaged in; they will also respect each other's territory, during that time.
indicate news which is strictly copyright
cations Ordinance, %. Such nowS, AS
is used by the "Hourkong Telegraph to sunder the provisions of the Telecommanl short, indefatigable and in- bears the indication UI is received indomitable Edward Benes. Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who, res serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part withou) proviÐUS Arrangemen
SOVIET-JAPANESE TREATY
A fairly accurate perspective of the treaty seems to be this: Tokyo had made such a point of being friends with the Kremlin at almost any price that a blank rejection, of Mr Matsuoka's advances would have been official notice of hostile at- titude. In giving Mr Matsuoka hl crumb, Stalin has lost nothing. Both parties to the agreement are fully aware that Axis diplomacy usca treaties only to suit its purpose; the Soviet-Japanese treaty is included in Axis machinations; If it suits either party to intervene contrary to treaty, "realism" will undoubtedly prevail over written words, and pretexts to-day range from minorities to fishing rights. This is no more cynical than is the background of the treaty.
the
Japan's Invasion of China has "been frustrated largely by Russian support of the Kuomintang. This support, which in four years has brought Japan to the lowest standard
..
living in her history, and must to be continued as vigorously as have cost her over a million lives, is Moscow thinks fit. Thus Russia ap- poses the New Order in Asia, openly Japan's
und
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Το crown all,
effectived chief alm in Asia
to purge it of Communism and she was an original signatory to the anti-Comintern part destined angst exclusively against
Russin
Just
Benes Knew
4
Allies
He saw this war coming. He atrocities committed by S.S. and well that I am here; and that knew the danger of Hitlerism and S.A, men in the possibility of Benes la here. They know that calmly he prepared to face it. conciliating the Czechs, and in Britain will win the war, that
"The Habsburgs are the When the Munich agreement bringing them to accept their Czech soldiers and airmen are enemies of Hitler. When we was signed he knew what it position as vassals in Hitler's fighting with her, that we are have won the war, it is for the meant. Ho bade his fellow- New European Order
contributing as much as we can people of Austria and Hungary countrymn farewell in a moving. But now that hope has proved to Britain's war effort (among to decide the kind of State they and dignified broadcast and took illusory.
other things, we are manufac. want, whether they want a again the long and hard road Baron von Neurath, the "Pro- turing Bren guns over here), and monarchy or a republic.. into exile which he and the dead tector" of the province of Bohe- that our young airmen have al- "As far as my own people are Masaryk had taken a generation mia and Moravia, and a man ready died for Britain.” concerned, We have already earlier. But he knew that one who, during his years in London,
made our choice. We have no day he would return.
concealed his brutal instincts and
Wish to Bee the Habsburgs rul-
"We were satisfied with our
เ
Cracks
The Future
such
I have heard Benes describe native arrogance under a mask We talked of the future shape Ing again over Czechoslovakia. the planning of the Czech revolu- of aristocratic charm and cour of Europe. Masaryk knows tion of the last war. I have tesy, recently gave way to a something of industrial condi- republic, and I know that wo heard him describe the planning furious outburst of anger and tions in England and in other shall be satisfied again with it of the present Czech resistance, hatred against the Czechs. countries, and he believes that when it is restored...
without adopting any
"We have won our right to His Partner
independence. Our culture is foolish, and futile slogans as
one of the most ancient in His partner in this noble con- Since then the mask has been making Europe fit for heroes, it spiracy is now the son of his dropped. The Czechs are to be must be made a reasonable and Prague, founded in 1848, is the. Europe. Our University in. enlier comrade, leader and treated as pariahs. All social safe and comfortable place for oldest in Central Europe. Be fellow-revolutionary, Jan Mas- intercourse between them and the people who work in the mills fore the last war we had re- saryk, the Minister for Foreign the Germans is forbidden. and factories, on the land and duced. illiteracy to less than a Affairs in the Czecho-Slovak I asked Jan Masaryk where in the mines.
half of one per cent., the lowest Government.
and how, in his opinion, the col- "These are. the people," he rate in the world. Jan Masaryk has the simplicity lapse of Hitlerism would occur. insisted, "who are winning the of has father, the self-taught The cracks in the structure war for Britain and her Allies, a free republic, and in many of For twenty years we lived as peasant lad who became a pre- of Italian Fascism," he replied, These are the people who are our institutions were a model to fessor at the University of "have already begun to appear. beating Hitler. It is foolish to other countries. It is true that Prague and first President, of The weakness of Italy has been talk of frontiers, to discuss the we made mistakes who has the Czechoslovak Republic. demonstrated in Africa and Al- political conditions of the coun-not? But democracy can cor-
He has also the energy, hu- bania.
tries now under Hitler's heel. rect its errors, and we can only mour and robust commonsense "I know that German Nazism "The social structure of the live in a democratic republic. of his American mother. is of a tougher fibre than world, the economic and political. "For us the Habsburgs were, Once a week he talks to his Fascism. Behind the cloak and equilibrium of Europe, have and are, Germans. And tho fellow-countrymen in the occu-sword Caesariam of Mussolini received such terrible shocks Germans are the hereditary pied territory. His rich, explo- there is always the cheap little that it is impossible to predict enemies of our nation, wit give, jesting voice brings them gangster thumbing his nose and what the future of Europe will "We have known hard hope and consolation, shrewd scowling and making rude noises. be at the end of this war. anecdotes at the expense of
:
"Not that Hitler is any less
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Goebbels, hard facts about cheap. Both Hitler and Musso- Hitler's failure to defeat us at lini have been doing a couple of Russia. sea or in the air, figures about Charlie Chapling on the world belled out Japanese maltas pol-American arms production, Ger- for years, and we didn't see pelled to accept a humiliating tion and to sue for terms at the man air losses, and the victories through. it. behest of Hiller, who shocked Japan- of the British and the Greeks ""The German is a tougher nut ese foundations by his sudden treaty in the Mediterranean.
to crack than the Italian. The of non-aggression with before the outbreak of war..
All Czechoslovakia listens in, Northern mysticism of the Gor- I only requires a little calm nods its head in approval, winka man makes the Nazi more thinking to asse95 the new treaty as expressively in secret under- fanatical, more intense, more one of opportunism on Russia's port standing with its neighbours. ruthless and efficient,
on Tokyo's part. Prince
probably was aware of the imminence of the treaty when ho stated to the press that Japan did not intend to use force in her southward expansion. For what they are wo
worth the words seem intend on walls, is spoken into the re- to forestall any anxiety that might ceivers of telephones, and is hint have been caused by the democracies on publication of the treaty,
Mr Matsuoka may still have a few things in his little bag to show to comedians the only men who
and unity
this
And it takes good care that the news is whispered into every ear. is slipped under doors in the dead of night, is written up
od at in the written or apoken festa of cartoonists, clowns and
"But the German machine, will break down like the Ita- Ilan.. Somewhere or other there is a chink in the armour, a weak link in the chain.
"Our job is to search until
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"For myself, I do not exclude
the possiblity of revolution, perhaps of half a dozen re- volutions in Europe, They might take different forms
times before, and we shall know them again. But we are a free people, and shall again be free.
"One thing we do not re- cognise the Munich ABTEC
in France it might be a Jaco-ment, and the mutilation of bin rising, in other countries our country by force. a social revolution.
"All I know is that when
First Of All
Hitler is defeated the people. "We regard ourselves as in the who have lived in the shadow position of a man whose house of his tyranny must have the has been broken Into, looted, and right to decide what kind of a seized during his absence on State they want, what kind of holiday. a social and -structure."
economic The house may or may not
Reconstruction
· have been too big for him, but- the first thing he wants to do
is to expel tho intruder and
we find it and then to attack be some kind of economic recon-
There must, Masaryk bollovos, regain possession of it.
"Afterwards: ho may decide
that weak link with all our struction, some kind of economic whether he would do without strength.
kregrouping.
his government. However, as far as may joke, with more or less
one of the rooms, or be satisfied of the world is concerned, Immunity in the empire of
Surrounded
The agreement recently sign with a smaller garden... the war of nerves" has been a Hitler, for the Nazi is notori
ed between the Poles and the Thus Jan Masaryk, the son of "Germany presents a tremen- Czochs, conferences have no rono unnonce ously a humourless person, and dous facade to the world. Some federationtains the germ of a the founder of the
Democratic defence
in Tokyo and a continuation of the little apt to understand a sly where along that vast frontier tions, of European Staten based lull in the Far East is more likely allusion.
that is any new adventure in the The Ozechathen have be to the Pyrenees, from the Baltic chango
from the North Cape in Norway upon reciprocitym
Czechoslovak
TO-MORROW Now Attor