The Archive · 1938

Czech Nationalist Seeks Treason Charge Against Sudeten Leader

German Colonial Claims May Be Settled With Czechoslovakian Issue; Berlin Press Angry

Prague, June 2.

Dr, Vlastimil Klima, leader of the National League Party, today demanded that the State Attorney pro-secure Herr Kondrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten German Party, on charges of high treason based on his recent utterances which were published as an interview with Mr, Ward Price in the "Daily Mail" of London.

The interview included the assertion by Herr Henlein that there were three alternatives involving the minority question of which one was armed conflict.

Some Sudeten circles, at the time of the publication of the interview, denied that Herr Henlein had authorized it to be printed. They said he merely talked with Mr, Price and what he may have said was not for publication.

Meanwhile, Miss Unity Vallyrie Freeman-Mitford, daughter of Lord Redesdale, and Mr, William Mueff, 22-year-old Chicago university student, among the four persons- seized by the authorities at Carlsbad on suspicion of conducting espionage activities, were today released and on their way to Germany.

Mr. Phillip Stranklin, English writer, and Herr Georg Wollner, representative of Herr Henlein in the Czech parliament, were the others who were taken into custody—United Press, be allowed by the Czech Government as it would ultimately lead to a partition of the Republic.—Trans-Ocean,

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