Opinion is held by economic auths that, as a result of the Ans-difficult problems may arise for Czechoslovakia in regard to communications, particularly in transit questions. It is serious for the republican state, as she has no direct access to the sea.
A very interesting feature in the economic structure of the country. which lends itself to the practice of democratic ideals, is the fact that there are 4,000,000 farms, where, in the days of the Hapsburgs, a few people owned everything in sight It was the astuteness and political wisdom of Masaryk that "broke the stranglehold on the source of all wealth which had persisted since 1620, by instituting in 1919 a Land Reform Law, which made it illegal for one person"to own more than 350 acres of arable land, or rore than 625 acres of all kinds of land." He had
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