The Sudeten Problem:
Well-known Writer's Views To the Editor of the *"Nomru-Cuma Dairy NEWS"
Sin—In view of the ever increas-interest shown by the whole world in connection with above I shall be grateful if you will publish the attached article by Major F. "Yeats-Brown, the well-known author of "Bengal Lancers," which appeared in "The Observer" on March 27, 1938, to see the situation in Czechoslovakia mic out of Prague, I happened neatly dramatized, for there, at the Stadium of the International Ice-Hockey Tournament, the flags of all the nations few, except the German swastikas, which were furled.
I stopped the car and counted. On due "sao of the stadium nearest to me four swastika banners were tied Up. and twenty-six, flags of other CBinities uttered free in the cold spring, wind. This pinprick against FEL Sudeten-Deutsch was certainly deliberate, but by whom was it infücted, I asked? tries Said, "we Would fud that "ID we. made a complaint," my Subordinate' was responsible. Orders would be given for the flags to be Heed: Next day they would be tied again, So it always happens. And yet" he added, "I do believe that the leading Czechs in the Government deplore these annoyances, They don't want to irritate After all, why should they? We'll have to setù down sometime, and live together."
was good to hear my friend enunciate such a sensible view of present difficulties, and later I found that it was endorsed-by highly-placed officials in the Sudeten-Deutscn party. Also on the Czech side a spokesman of the Government con-Vinced me that there was goodwill and a desire to remedy certain flagrant grievances, although not, haps, & realisation of how urgent the human side or the problem.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.