To the Editor of the "Nowrn-Cmiwa Dany Ne Sm,—Under the quaint heading "The Perplexed Pilgrim: The Abbot's Terms" a reply appears by your correspondent Cuao Kunc, who requires, among other conditions, that 1 abandon my anonymity and declare my true name, I would remind him of that old adage "Curiosity killeth a cat" and for reasons of feminine modesty I refuse to accede to his request, I am nevertheless willing to inform him that I am a Czech subject holding my country's passport, of feminine gelider, and belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church, I do not see the need of covering in reply all his subtle inflexions under the guise of pro-German propaganda which he camouflages under the cloak of his advocacy of peace, He writes inter alia:
1t you really want peace, why dont, Wu dure, pence, instead of conditions
provoking living forces against untenable conditions? Have only some Of you and not all the nations, races living on this earth the right to means of livelihood, to freedom and of the nations be enslaved by independence? Must, or can, some
others?
May I not ask him, who is pro-yoking "untenable" conditions conductive to war today, if not the Third Reich? The good Abbot advises also that nations seeking peace should create such conditions which will assure peace, a statement when boiled down to a point means the handing over of Czech territories to the Germans and the Hungarians, Is this his conception of justice and peace? In America there are 3,000,000 Germans who are also a minority group in the American nation. Will not Germany in time ask for full autonomy for her nationals in the United States, just as she is today demanding the return of Czech larids peopled by her Sudeten Germans, if the precedent is now created in Europe? The Abbot in his query that "Have the Czechs proved themselves able and willing to assimilate the different nationalities living within their borders these twenty years?" and in his concluding innuendo that Europe will be plunged into a holocaust if the Czechs are allowed o "perpetuate a state of things, which proves his illogical mind—in apposition to the principles of peace, justice and fairplay which he advocates, In conclusion, well may I conclude with Chaucer's line from the "Canterbury Tales":
"Venus lovett ryot and dispense."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.