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WAR

CZECHO

- SLOVAKIA. 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.

How Will Hitler

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Fall ?-3

by George Slocombe

the famous Foreign Correspondent

come a listening race.

abide their time.

DR BENES coming.

"He saw this war

He knew the danger of

Hitlerism."

to the Adriatic, there must be markets, and joint collaboration They listen in silence. But an unguarded passage, an un- for security and defence. their silence is pregnant with locked door.

This agreement is not ex- They listen, and meaning.

"Germany is now living in a clusive. It is open to other States. world surrounded by hate. She Hungary and Austria would be 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. history of the Germans. Hope All her neighbours hate her with And a federation or union of has lightened even darker an increasing hatred.

Pland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary hours than these. They have learned to possess their souls The Czech, the Pole, the Belgian, advantage of creating a great "How could it be otherwise? and Austria, and possibly also of Jugoslavia, would have the the Norwegian, the Dutchman, incompatible races of Europe,

in patience.

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 I then raised the delicate looking than the con- quered Empire now ruled November, 1939, they serves and cattle, down to the humblest question of the Habsburgs. The

them as a warning-they are not of his possessions. by Hitler-by

much-mooted return of that. few content with a mere passive "It is to these scores of mil- dynasty to the throne of Hun- resulute men.

lions of people that we have to gary or Austria, or of both, was The story of the Czech Mounting Tale

appeal.

always the King Charles Head revolt is one of the forgotten

"We know that our broadcasts of the Danubian States after the epics of 1914-1918. Two men executions, deportations to the mark because of the infuriating

The mounting tale of arrests, night and day are reaching the lust war.

Benes Knew

a

resistance.

Royalty?

It formed the only solid link

led it the tall, scholarly, labour camps in Germany, at effect they have on the Germans, between Czechoslovakia, Ru is used by the "longkong Telegraph mild and modest Thomas tests the stubbornness, of the and the increasing amount of mania and Jugoslavia. And in Garrigue Masaryk; the Czech opposition to the invader- time and passion they devote to pre-Anschluss daya a Habsburg short, indefatigable and in-

A number of cases of sabotage replying to them.

restoration was considered as the domitable Edward Benes. 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. I have been Benes for Twenty railways.

latest story spread about me by Hitler is my friend," he said. "Anybody who is against Until a few weeks ago the the German radio is that I am "And until this war is won years. I have seen him move

tion by his astonishing perspica- notwithstanding the massacre London, but in Montevideo. city.

of the students and the other "But the Czechs know very with me in fighting Hitler.

versy with anyone who agrecs. He saw this war coming. He atrocities committed by 5.S. and well that I am here, and that knew the danger of Hitlerism and S.A. men-in the possibility of Benes is here. They know that

Allies calmly he prepared to face it. conciliating the Czecha, and in Britain will win the wat, that "The Habsburgs are the

When the Munich agreement bringing them to accept their Czech soldiers and airmen are enemies of Hitler. 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 When we meant. He 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 mis 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-

wish-to-sco the Habsburgs rul

| SOVIET-JAPANESE TREATY | statesmen at Geneva to admira- German authorities still believed a Jew and that I am not in will not engage in any contro-

MR Yosuke Matsuoka, the 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 each 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.

A fairly accurate perspective of the treaty seems to be this: Tokyo

friends with the Kremlin at almost

Mr Matsuoka's advances would have been official notice of a hostile at- titude. In giving Mr Matsuoka his crumb, Stalin has lost nothing. Both

the treaty.

and

concealed his brutal instincts-and- The Future

7

I have heard Bencs describe native arrogance under a 'maak 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 "We were satisfied with our tion of the last war. I have tesy, recently gave way to a something of industrial condi- republic, and I know that wo had made such a point of being heard him describe the planning furious outburst of anger and tions in England and in other shall be satisfied again with it any price that a blank rejection of of the present Czech resistance, hatred against the Czechs. countries, and he believes that when it is restored.

His Partner

Cracks

without adopting any Buch "We have won our right to foolish and futile slogans as one of the most ancient In Independence. Our culturdis His partner in this noble con- Since then the mask has been making Europe fit for heroes, it Europe. Murtles to the agreement are fully spiracy is now the son of his dropped: The Czechs are to be must be made a reasonable and Prague, founded in 1348, is the Our University in aware that Axis diplomacy uses earlier comrade, leader

and treated as pariahs. All social safe and comfortable place for oldest in Central Europe. Be treaties only to suit its purpose; the fellow-revolutionary, Jan Mas- intercourse between them and the people who work in the mills fore the last war we had re Soviet-Japanese

treaty is included in saryk, the Minister for Foreign the Germans is forbidden. and factories, on the land and duced illiteracy to less than a Axis

machinations; if it suits either Affairs in the Czecho-Slovak I asked Jan Masaryk where in the mines. party to intervene contrary to the treaty, "realism" will undoubtedly Government.

and how, in his opinion, the col- "These are the people," he rate in the world.

half of one per cent, the lowest provali over written words,

Jan Masaryk has the simplicity lapse of Hitlerism would occur. insisted, "who are winning the For twenty years we lived as pratexts to-day range from minorities of has father, the self-taught "The cracks in the structure war for Britain and her Allies. a free republic, and in many of to fishing rights. This is no more peasant lad who became a pro- of Italian Fascism," he replied, These are the people who are our institutions were a model to cynical than is the background of 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 Japan's invasion of China has the Czechoslovak Republic. been frustrated largely by Russlan

demonstrated in Africa and Al- political conditions of the coun- not? But democracy can cor- support of the Kuomintang. This He has also the energy, hu, banja.

trics now under Hitler's heel. "rect its errors, and we can only support, which in four years has mour and robust commonsense "I know that German Nazism brought Japan to the lowest standard of his American mother.

"The social structure of the live in a democratic republic. is of of living in her history; and must

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, Germáns. have cost her over a million lives, is fellow-countrymen in the occu-sword Caesarism of Mussolini received such terrible shocks Germans are the hereditary And tho to be continued as vigorously inspeed torotory. His rich, explo- there is always the cheap little that it is impossible to predict eneinles of our nation, Moscow thinks fil. poses the New Order

ier in and effectively.

Asia, openly sive, jesting voice brings them gangster thumbing his nose and what the future of Europe will Japan's professed chief aim in Asla hope and consolation, shrewd scowling and making rude noises, be at the end of this war da is to purge it of Communism and anecdotes at the expense of "Not that Hitler is any less she was an original signatory to the Goebbels, hard facts about cheap. Both Hitler and Musso anti-Comintern pact designed almost Hitler's failure to defeat us at lini have been doing a couple of exclusively The proud Japanese have been com.

asea or in the air, figures about Charlie Chaplins on the world pelled to accept a humillating posi- American arms production, Ger- for years, and we didn't sco tion and to sue for terms at the man air losses, and the victories through It. behest of Hitler, who shocked Japan- of the British and the Greeks "The German is a tougher nut ese foundations by his sudden treaty in the Mediterranean. of non-aggression with Russia Just

to crack than the Italian. The before the outbreak of Wittle calm nods its head in approval, winks man

All Czechoslovakia listens In, Northern mysticism of the Ger I only requires a

makes the Nazi more thinking to assess the new treaty

This

Το crown

op.

against Soviet Russia.

"For myself, I do not exclude the possiblity of revolution, perhaps of half a dozen re- volutions in Europe, They, might take different forms in France it might be a Jaco bin rising, in other countries a social revolution.**

"We have known hard 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 Agreo- ment, and the mutilation of our country by force.

First Of All

"All I know is that, when Hitler is defeated the people "We regard ourselves as in the who have lived in the shadow position of a man whose house

one of opportunism on Russia's part expressively in secret under- fanatical, more intense, more of his tyranny must have the has been broken into, looted, and

standing with its neighbours. ruthless, and efficient,

And it takes good care that the news is whispered into overy car, is slipped under doors in

and importunity on Tokyo's part, Prince Konoye probably was aware of the Imminence of the treaty when he stated to the press that Japan did not intend to use force in hai the dead of night, is written up southward expansion: For what

they

"But the German machine will break down like the Ita- lian: Somewhere or other there is a chink in the armour, weak link in the chain. "Our job is to search unti

are worth the words seem Intended on walls, is spoken into the rea to forestall any anxiety that might ceivers of telephones, and is hint

have been caused by the democracles ed at in the written or spoken on publication of the treaty.

Low

Jests of cartoonists, clowns and Mr Matsuoka may still have things in his little bag to show to comedians the only men who this government. However, as far as many Joke with more or loss of the world is coficerned, immunity in the empire of

nerves" has been

we

right to decide what kind of a seized during his absence on State they want, what kind of holiday, fata, mar an mencap a social and- economicThe house may or may not have been too big for him, but the first thing he wants to do

structure.

Reconstruction is to expel the intruder and

find it and then to attack be some kind of economic recon-

Thera must, Masaryk believes, regain possession of its

"Afterwards he may decide.d that weak link with all our struction, some kind of economic whether he would do without strength:

Surrounded

regrouping.ppt one of the rooms, or be satisfel

The agreement recently sign with a smaller garden.

n

ed between Thus Jan Masaryk, the of

Anmuters, hop, arvaderdie boema Sutler, for the Nail is, motor? "Germany, présents a tremen- Czochyeon, the Poles sand, the the founder of the Cachoslova conferences have not gone unnoted ously a humourless person and dous facade to the world. Some federation, or series of federa. Topublicado in Tokyo and a continuation of the little apt to understand a sly where along that vast frontler tions of European States, based

lull in the Far East la more likely than is any new adventure in the Imperial Way,

allusion

The Czechs,

from the North Cape in Norway upon reelprocity, mutual have be- to the Pyrenees, from the Baltic change of raw materins

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