The Archive · 1938

Sudeten Congress

Prague, Apr. 24. A demand that the Czechoslovakian Government should make a complete revision of. its foreign policy and remove Czechoslovakia from the ranks of "the enemies of the German people," was made by Herr Henlein, leader of Czechostovakia's Sudeten Germans, at Carlsbad today.

Herr Henlein was speaking at the annual Congress of the Sudeten German Party, which has been summoned to formulate the Germans' demands of the Czechoslovakian Government following the incorporation of Austria into the German Reich.

In a somewhat aggressive speech, Herr Henlein said that the policy of the Sudeten Germans was inspired by the principles and ideas of National-Socialism, "If the Czech statesmen want to reach a permanent understanding with us Germans and the German Reich," he declared, "They will have to fulfil our demand for a complete revision of Czech foreign policy and cease to rank the country among the enemies of the German people." the plan read. "It particularly asks for equality of linguistic rights, and the enforcement of administrative autonomy. The autonomous administration should be confided with greater economic, social, and sanitary tasks.—Havas.

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