Prague, Mar. 16.
"We most solemnly declare that jwe have decided to fight together for our political rights, cultural freedom and economic and social security," declared Dr. Karl H. Frank, one of the leaders of the Sudeten German (Henlein Party) for whom he was speaking in Parlisment.
Dr. Frank said that "our movement has álways felt itself to be a movement fighting against the fate which befell our people in 1918-19.
"The Sudeten Germans are now roused by a desire for life" he declared.
Instead of granting Sudeten Germans their just rights, the Czechoslovakian Government is prac-rising a policy of making national political relations more untenable and more strained.
"We declare most solemnly that we do not accept the goal of the Czechoslovak State, nor do we content ourselves with the declaration of February 18, 1937" (by which the Government offered the Sudeten Germans certains certain privileges).
The Sudeten German Party in Czechoslovakia is composed of German National Socialists and bourgeois elements of other German parties. It advocates the establishment of a United German front and is opposed to Marxism. Its leader is Dr. Konrad Henlein, and its representation in Parliament consists of 23 members in the Upper Chamber and 44 in the Lower Chamber. The Sudeten German Party is second only to the Czechoslovak Agrarian Republican Party, the strongest political body in the country.—Reuter.
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