In the twenty years since its formation, the Republic of Czechoslovakia has built up a well-balanced economy. Broadly, the agricultural Workers of the great central plains of Bohemia and Moravia provide the food, raw materials and clothing for the industrial workers of the eastern, northern and western frontier regions. And the output of the manufacturing regions on the frontier goes to provide the exports which are the life blood of this Central European State, states The "Financial News" of September 22.
Economic life in the Republic, therefore, forms a cohesive whole. Her statesmen have always claimed that neither of these two major groups could exist satisfactorily without the other. Without a large manufacturing population to absorb its wheat, milk and meat, the farming community would be forced to enter the world export market under unfavourable conditions, while without the farms, food and other essentials would have to be imported for industrial workers
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