Stuttgart, Sept, 1.
The Nazi Regional Leader, Herr Josef Buerckel, yesterday addressed ihe gathering of Germans living abroad. He characterized Czechoslovakia as one of the legacies of the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy, born of the spirit of Metternich.
The new nationalities state in the structure, he said, has much in com> mon with the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, destroyed at St. Germain and Trianon under invocation of the principle of the right of self-determination. The attempt of the Czechs to dominate five other ethnic groups was bound to fail because these ethnic groups had themselves been promised that the right of self-determination would be made the goal of peace in 1918.
Herr Buerckel, dealing with the development in Austria, declared that great deal still remained to be done there. "The economic life is but at the beginning of a great period of development. We have our hands full with the task but there are no more strikes and no more demonstrations, and no more houses are being blown up. Everybody is working, and working at high pressure."
Herr Buerckel denied that the church had any claim to educate the young, this being a function of the State alone. This did not, he stated, preclude the church from imparting to the youth whatever religious instruction the church considered necessary.—Trans-Ocean,
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