To the Editor of the *"Nonru-CumA Dany News"
Sm,—Czechoslovakia "must not be thrown to the wolves"—that sentences such as these, insulting to the Germans, can bẹ uttered in a speech and published "m the newspapers (your article on the speech of the T.U.C. president Mr. H. H, Elvin) shows that most Britons and Americans do not realize that Czechoslovakia is no nation, but an artificial state founded by the dictates of President Wilson in 1919. President Wilson, who, I think, had never seen that country, should therefore be held responsible for the present unrest in Europe.
In former centuries, until 1914, European countries were more or less the private estates of their royal reigning houses. Countries and provinces changed their rulers by marriage or inheritance. It was not uncommon that a princess brought a nice, fat province as her dowry—and was married for that dowry. It happened that England was ruled for some time by the German house of-Hanover. It happened that the Emperor of Austria was also King of Hungary and ruler of various small nations as the Czechs and Slovaks.
Through the war we have learned that the Czechs do not like to fight foran Austrian—government,—but neither"do 3% million Germans like to they to Czech rule. And not only Getmans are concerned, but also Hungary has lost some of her best provinces to Czechoslovakia by the dictates of an outsider. Neither do the Poles like to be Czech subjects, mot even the Slovaks do! We should have learned that it does no good to chain together several nationalities, who are foreign to each other, in one state. And I think all that Hitler is trying to do is to remedy the mistake made in 1919, I sincerely believe that nobody wants to hurt the Czechs, they may keep their own part of the country and live in peace, like Luxemburg and other small states. I do not understand, therefore, why France, Great Britain and the United States get so excited over the demands of the Sudetens, even to the point of threatening with war? I would like to hear some genuine British views about this problem, and beg to sign.
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