The foregoing gives some of the points of dissonance originating from ethnical, political and strategical considerations. It would be interesting now to fe apprised of the economic workings of Czechoslovakia and of the elements of grievance among the Sudeten Germans that originate from economic grounds.
In the central regions of the country, one learns that industry is occupied with the production of capital goods and armaments, with sugar refining and with brewing. The western and northerly districts of Bo-hernia engage themselves in the manufacture of consumption goods and those for export. During the great depression these latter industries suffered very heavily and worse than the others. The large free markets of the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy, where there used to be no Customs obstacles, existed no longer for them.
In consequence of the increasing German shortage in foreign exchange, exports to Germany rapidly fell off; textile industries also lost their markets in the Balkans, as Hungary and the Balkan States built their own factories and sought protection in high-tariff walls.
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