Shanghai, Apr, 23.
***The following is from a broadcast on March 28, 1938, by Dr. Milan Hodza, Prime Minister of Czechoslo-Vakia.
"We must, however, once and for all say that' our minority policy still continues to suffer for a certain lack of proportion. Czechoslovakia was. ana! still is, magnanimous and generous to her Germans in big matters, but in insignificant trifles hesitant. Our Germans possess high schools, secondary schools and technical schools in full proportion, sometimes in excess of their duc proportions, The Czechoslovak State has thus from the very day of its restoration afforded its Germans that spiritual spring from which issues so much cultural and moral strength that its consequences cannot be other than cultural, and as a natural dadu tion, political jonalism. In our Republic there are whole areas where, up to the year 1918, German elementary schools to say nothing of secondary schools did not exist at all In those places it was the Republic that first introduced such schools and thus saved for the Germans whole regions that had been menaced the old regime. The Republic th gave its Germans the primary cultural conditions for their nationalism, and gave them with a generous hand,"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.