Prague, May 20
The Cabinet, after an extraordinary and secret session, today decided to call one class of army. reserves to the to settle the Nationalities question 1 Czechoslovakia autonomous adm'nistiations and proportional representation was foreshadowed by Dr. Milan Hodza, the n in momentous declara terday before representatives various! of political parties.
The coming nationalities statute, he said, would be based on principles both of home rule and just proportions, and would cut deeply into the structure of the Czechoslovakia State. As such, the statute would help Democratic and Republican Czechoslovakia to fulfil her mission of peace and justice in Europe.
Negotiations with the Sudeten German Party would be held forthwith.
"No state in the world," Dr, Hodza asserted, "has ever been placed in the situation in which we find ourselves today, We are in the immediate neighbourhood of the most elementary proce: ever known in world history, namely, the triumph over reason and cool consideration of emotional nationalism,
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