The Archive · 1938

"Nonru-Cirisa. Dany News" ONE Wie is NEITHER GER- MAN NOR CZECH BUT 1$ ACQUAINTED

wim Concrete Facts will permit me to refer to him as HUNGARIAN: it is shorter, and I guess it would not be wrong either.

It is true that there has been in Austria one or other high officials with a Czech or Polish name (besides, names do not n indication to the in that part of the world, included, as especially a ian should know), but that is not the point. Have there not o in Czechoslovakia been Germans members of the Cabinet? Three—one of them had the name Czech!

The point is that the influential, well-paid offices in the different branches of the administration, the police, etc, were held by Germans. Of course it was worse in Hu A where approximately—16.000.000, of which 8200,00 were non-Hungarian, were ruled by Magyars only It is well-known that of the non-

Germans the Hungarians have been the "favourites with the Haps-burgs" in pre-war times (pre-war times shall mean neither 1848 nor 800 A.D). The Hungarians of that time disliked Franz Ferdinand's endeavours for a reconciliation with the Czechs just as much us the Hungarians of today would dislike a reconciliation between the Czechoslovakian government and the Germans in Czechoslovakia Franz Ferdinand and his Czech wife were murdered by an executive of a panslavistic organization originating in Serbia, for the reason. not because "his plans lacked the essential requisites of a nationalistic state" (see figures about population in pre-war Hungaria) but be: the panslavists feared for their aims in case Franz Ferdinand succeeded in his endeavours.

I am a Czechoslovakian zen Austrian-German——extraction: whether HuwcARAN likes it or not.

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