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Next morning, motoring to Germany with William F. Rueff, U. S. art student resident in Munich, a young British journalist and a Sudeten German deputy in the Czech Parliament, Unity's car was brought to a halt by military police in a military area...
...Czech police confiscated her three cameras, films, and a book of German poetry, and five hours later allowed the earful to continue on to Germany...
Settlement? Evidence that the Czech leaders want time to consider Henlein's demands, perhaps to accept his "autonomy" solution, was seen last week when they postponed for a fortnight a session of Parliament that is to tackle the problem...
...Allied peacemakers by the Treaty of Saint-Germain, in order to set up a natural fortification barrier against Germany. This gave the new Czechoslovak State a population 22% German. The Sudetens lost their German and Austrian markets. Some Sudeten factories shut down, others were taken over by Czechs. Although the Sudetens form almost 100% blocs in some sections, Czech police and local officials were appointed to administer their affairs. Czech workers gradually squeezed out the Germans and today the region's greatest grievance is unemployment, for although they number only 22% of the population, the Sudetens comprise half...
However, a grim reminder that German-Czech relations are still on edge met every voter at the polls. Alongside the ballot boxes stood collection boxes for Czechoslovakia's defense fund. Although the balloting in the rest of the country went on to a patriotic jingle of hellers, in the Sudeten area the vote was sullen, clinkless...