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And the Czecho-Slovakian Army's ratio of Bren machine- AVE for those imbued guns is claimed to be the highest

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bent for interna- The Air Force musters some tional affairs, Czecho- 500 warplanes. Acroplanes are Slovakia is one of those built by four factories and aero countries about which the engines by five others.

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these factories necessarily lie Partly this is due to the fact within bombing range of Czecho

Thus that the name of Czecho-Slovakia Slovakia's neighbours.

the school Czecho-Slovnkin is n country that readily attacked in the Great War. For 20 years than defended from the air. ago Czecho-Slovakia didn't exist.

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Much of her frontier is moun-

In the intervening years pro- tainous. Flying from Berlin to

few bably

relatively

Britons Munich I have looked down on mountain tops Czecho-Slovakia. the Bohemian have visited

cloud- Thus many people find that part sticking up above the of Europe rather difficult to filled valleys.

I have flown over the frontier visualise accurately.

Yet to-day it is the focal point between Nuremberg and Prague of world atTairs. For the ate and seen the hills through gaps ment Spain and China are over in the clouds over which I had shadowed in the headlines by toy to clear the mountains. the claim of Czecho-Slovakia.

This long, narrow country lies, und west. Its roughly, east head-in more senses than one Hes in the west, in line with

Venice. Copenhagen and tail, some 570 miles to the east, is level with Helsinki and Crete In its widest parts it is about

Between

H

The whole of her northern,

western, and eastern frontiers are mountainous and naturally easily defensible against ground attack.

180 miles across, but its average dustrial and agricultural, Tim width is nearer 80 to 100 miles. her is a considerable factor in Czecho-Slovakin and Russia do her economics; about a third of not adjoin. The extreme tail of her total area is forest the eastern province of Ruthenia Clay and sand are converted lies some 100 miles from the into china and glass. Who does nearest point of the

Soviet not know the Czecho-Slovakian frontier.

Czecho- glassware? She is rich in other Slovakia and the Soviet lie the minerals, producing iron, gra- territories of Poland and

Ru- phite, lend, coal, silver, gold, and

radium. was the incorporation of

Small wonder, then, that the Austria into the Greater Reich Skoda works rank among the that brought the problem of largest

manufacturing Czecho-Slovakia to the forefront organisations in Europe. of world affairs, because Ger- many's claim to safeguard the interests of the Sudeten Ger- mans was strengthened by the Anschluss with Austrin.

mania.

Taunsbay, JUNE 23. 1938.

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REFUGEE PROBLEM STILL UNSOLVED The refugee emergency has not

yet passed in Hongkong, and although the Government's Egures issued regarding the probable increases in population

Arms

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Zeme, 1819 by Tinized Testers Konéšenia, tel.

"His Majesty's recommendations for the national defence are: 10,000 cannon, 100,000 soldiers, 1,000 battleships, and 5,000 planca-and if we can't get it in chocolate, he wants it in vanil-

lal"

AN OLD-TIMER SPEAKS OF YOUTH

exuberant belief in Youth.

not

BUT Pilsen, where it hard to answer and harder still

was situated, lics only 40 miles from the German fron-

recent The western end of Czecho- tier, and so in

between pincers.

men who

worked

times

every

primarily to the purpose of in-

culcating an attitude of resent- ful superiority. How wonder- ful we are! What a marvellous race is ours! Of what things we catches at this creed eagerly and are capable Perfervid youth

dreams that it has discovered a new path to freedom.

IT is fashionable at the moment Mrs. Grundy

to speak in glowing terms of

Moreover, a childish mind al- youth as a beneficently hopeful and redeeming force. There is ways tends to confuse vigour of and activity with pushing and much talk of the Promise

for bumping Action of this nature, Along the border it is reported | Youth, much admiration that there are concrete

Youth's impatiener with out-being obvious, can be understood pill- boxes with

But ill-judged and without mental effort, and if a machine-guns and worn errors, anti-tank guna.

pompous as have been some of political creed can make such Czecho-Slovakia is both the admonitions Maturity has action appear noble and glorious, addressed to Youth, there are it is certain of an enthusiastic many inescapable facts in evi, reception from the youthful part

of the country. denec all around that might, on Then the old-timer will ex- consideration, rather modify this į land.

plain that it fills him with grim amusement to observe the For example, an elderly man who remembers the reverberat-younger generation falling so completely under the spell of ing days of Gladstone is

with that Mrs. Grundyism necessarily A complete "back

which they announce they have Rected more than a little in the whole cult of Mrs. Grundyism number." He has possibly re- no sympathy or patience. The course of his life, and he has depends for perpetuation on the listened to the lunch-hour con- stimulating Bongo of moral versations of several generations auperiority it

can give to its of workmates. Ho has

scen votaries by making a mean love much and heard much, and may of inflicting suffering appear as be able to put forward obser-

a glowing and righteous thing. vations that Youth would And

Fascist propaganda is directed to endure.

Lunch hour conversation up to early June are reassuring, Slovakia-composed entirely of decentralisation of the Skoda among workmen, he will tell you, is not what it was, and the problem is by no means the previous Austrian provinces plant has been carried out to

banal Government will have of Bohemia and Moravia-cuts provide for greater security sounds, he is ready enough to though this opening solved. it that the actual increase of

a great wedge into the territory from air attacks.

support his contention. He will population has not been any of Greater Germany.

The importance of these

suggest that one compare the thing like commensurate with

Prague is but 180 miles south-works can be gauged from the literature workmen read in the the estimated total of arriving east of Berlin. About 175 miles fact that locomotive manufac-last century-and he might even "It Isn't Politics" refugees. Apparently miny to the south-east lies Vienna. turers all over the world are be-display some thousands of these people have The situation

examples of this of the city of coming increasingly concerned literature, solid, rather stifling

Then disturbing facts are en- gone elsewhere.

Exactly how Prague is now like that of a nut at the way in which the cream reading matter with

countered. The enticing path of many thousands have remained.

of the orders in this trade has square inch of space catering for emotional stimulation leads to however, it is impossible to say.

lately been taken by the Skoda what must have been a most malodorous swamps and tangled Probably a good many. The Within Range

works.

thickets. authorities

An explanation must are alive to the

strenuous demand for informa- dangers attaching to

THE such an

It has been stated that Czecho- tion-with the "crime thriller" be procured. Of course, some influx,

one must be found to fill the role mast for the creation Slovakia has spent 280,000,000 and the Wild West doubt. no There are two methods of deal of Czecho-Slovakia the late Presi- on fortifying her frontier with that are devoured so eagerly to- of the villain of the piece. To give the whole intoxicating con- ing with this surplus population dent, Dr. Masuryk, and his suc- Germany, and each of the moun-day.

ception of superior, all-conquer- and the additional surplus cessor, Dr. Benes, were doubt- tain passes is heavily defended. which will come

ing Youth a semblance of logi- 48 soon as less aware of Czecho-Slovakia's Close behind the frontier new Sport Monopoly

cal coherence, some myth of an Japanese activities are extended fundamental geographical weak- airports have been built, in South China, as so frequently ness, and for that reason they

But the southern part of the Politics, religion, and some evil, malicious power, bringing threatened. One scheme is to built up un

Army and

possess asolid aspects of Trade Unionism, frustration and disaster on the country does not house and feed and clothe the

natural frontier as in the west, he will explain. were common efforts of the virtuous, must be destitute, and to charge a trivial

north, and east,

topics once, whereas to-day brought into being. amount to those who have

Between Prague and the Aus- nothing stands much chance It is no mere chance that has funds. It was considered by homes unless they are forced to trian frontier in the direction of with the interminable talk on made Fascists the inveterate foer social workers at one stage that by circumstances. There are Vienna the country slopes racing and football coupons, of the Jews. Some focus point big camps should be established already restrictions to keep out gradually up and then down. Then the elderly gentleman, for the necessary element of re- in the New Territories for these of the Colony the wholly im- Farther east the frontier follows warming to his theme, will pour sentment, this hatred which can people. That suggestion ori- pecunious. Therefore it does the Danube. Away to the south scorn on the shallowness of poli-be a solvent for any possible ginated with this newspaper. not seem that refugee camps-cast it runs over part of thetical knowledge to-day, and will doubts of the might and wonder And it is still a sound one, al- which incidentally might ac- Hungarian Plain, until it reaches tell of the deep interest in Glad-of Youth, must be found. Nover though those who have subse commodate some of the litter of the folds and ridges of the Car-stone's time that led men

to mind the clear and reiterated quently sponsored it have not hawkers-would bring any more pathian Mountains, where the stand in queue to pay to hear the lessons of history. Never mind adopted it in its entirety. The people here than would ordinari-province of Ruthenia ends. foremost political figures of the the unmistakable facts of poli- alternative is to bring all rely seek British Boil for Here, then, is the problem of time.

tical wisdom. Never mind the fugees into our very midst. It sanctuary in emergency. If it Czecho-Slovakia. Her head lics But it is when he gets to the dictates of commonsense! Here is not advocated that there were found that the influx was between the jaws of Germany subject of Fascism that he be are a set of people easily dis- should be free camps, although unmanageable, it could always and Austria. Within the ter comes really interesting. Fas- tinguished by features and.com- it is not proposed to make a be checked.

ritory enclosed by those jaws cism he will diagnose as essen- plexion; here is the voice of au- charge upon destitutes, either. It can be argued that relive the three and a half million tially a malady of juvenile minds. thority decrying them as degrad- Rather it is suggested that such fugees are going to come into Sudeten Germans.

In his younger days, when there ed wretches whose machinations people as enter the camps Hongkong in any event. At For about 80 miles the borders was less talk of the merits of cause all the ills of the world. should earn their own living, as some point the last inch of of Rumania and Czecho-Slovakia youth, men would have laughed Yes, the ils wo suffer from are far as possible; and the able- tenement space is going to be bodied might even be put to filled. It does seem that before join. Elsewhere the country is uproariously at the very idea of considerable, but how great must certain be the guilt of those who plan work upon such local improve- that unhappy time arrives some cut off by the frontiers of Ger- donning shirts of a ments as are thought useful by preparation might be made in many, Austria, Hungary, and colour to give expression to it all!

authorities. It is not the the way of temporary shelters Poland. Two hundred miles their political opinions. idea to create a haven of refuge| at

Perhaps also he will go on to burns eentatically. a distance from the urban of German territory separate and case to which thousands of areas, where refugees could be France and Czecho-Slovakia at demonstrate that the whole doc superiority receives a new impetus; people would flock from China. received and controlled, and re- the nearest point. Russia and trine springs from a subsoll of clearly it now has an explied duty to It appears to be the fear of leased if they had friends or Czecho-Slovakia are parted by callow mentality. He will illus-perform in working off its coltian energy in abush and, calumnigting include the trate the significance of the pre- theng wretches, the Jews. authority that the establish- funds which allowed of in- 100 miles, which

vailing anti-Semitism of Fascista "No," anys the old-timer, "It is ment of such camps would have dependence. In advocating such Carpathian Mountains. that effect: that the attraction, stéps it is not meant to plead Czecho-Slovakin, born of the by remarking that everyoño simple, direct, vigorous, and specta- cular: but, believe me, it isn't would be sufficient to bring in the case of the refugee particu- Peace Treaties, before even it knows how delighted a malicious politics!""" countless refugees, even from Iarly, but rather for considera-has come of age, has, perhaps child will become if he can for- Indeed, though, Youth may be and clamouring just now at the centre of communities which were not tion for those who make their more than any other interna-get his own restrictions directly threatened by the hos- permanent home here and whose tional factor, brought Europe miseries in the chance of abus- the stage, Maturity, sitting back be- yand the foot-lights, B nelther tilities. Chineso, however, 'do] health it la tho duty of back to the old diplomacy of ing some other hapless young dazzled nor decalved. not generally abandon their authority to safeguard.

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