The reader may well ask why Should there be so much portentous Tumbling and thunder over a little elongated piece of country in the midst of- Europe. Why should a nation of over 70,000,000, namely, Germany, be concerned with one that is only, in number, a fifth of its population? The answer lies in the needs created by Germany's cam-"paign for expansion, the "Drang nach Osten, the push to the east. The Germans acutely require resources of fuel oil, steel, wheat and other raw materials. Czechoslovakia, that independent state, blocks access to "these things, in the event of an em-the strong sense of justice, however, to legislate that the original owners should be reimbursed for what was taken from them and be paid on the basis of the 1913-1915 values.
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