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 THE WESTERN MAIL & SOUTH WALES NEWS,  February 1933   

[Letter of criticism about Gareth's series of articles entitled "Looking at Europe"]

LOOKING AT EUROPE 

Position of Minority Races in Czechoslovakia 

Sir,

Mr. Gareth Jones should remember that in Czechoslovakia the Slovaks do not by any means rank as a minority race they are absolutely equal in state to the Czech. 

That must entail some modification of the statement that “only one-half of the population are the masters and are seeking to spread their power as rapidly as possible.” 

The Czechs and Slovaks together form two-thirds of the total population.

The Minorities - German and Magyar - have ample facilities for education in their own native tongue. There are 9,419 Czechoslovak, 3,287 German, and 794 Magyar primary schools in the Republic. The proportion of minority schools is surely generous rather than the reverse. 

The Germans have a German university in Prague and two German technical schools, one in Prague and one in Bruno It is a travesty to say that “the Czechs are now taking their revenge” and are oppressing the minority races. 

It is provocative to say that the Czech’s “weapon is the law.”  There is every justice for a German in Czechoslovakia as indeed for any other national - perhaps even more justice in Czechoslovakia than for a German in Germany itself in these days.

Yours faithfully,

H. C. GILL.

3, Old Queen Street,

Westminster,

S.W.1, Feb. 21.1933

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany.

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