Czechoslovak Crisis While the cables have not made everything clear with regard to the crisis which has developed between the Czechs and the Slovaks In Czechoslovakia, there is sufficient information to show that' it has been developed along Hines which are by now familiar. There is some argument as to whether the dismissal of Dr. Josef iso from the Premiership of Slovakia was constitutional or not, and it is quite clear that that gentleman does not intend to take it Tying down. 'The one important fact which emerges from' the welter of rumour and con-Aicting reports which has come to hand, is that there is every possibility of a further dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, and that the Slovaks will be given "complete independence from the Czechs. The reports of brutality which have been broadcast, were to some extent discounted by the statement of Mr. Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons that only minor incidents had occurred at. Bratislava, though this in turn must be modified by the reports of bombings in that city which occurred Jale on Monday night. Prague appears to fear 2 German ultimatum, while according to Havas fourteen divisions have mobilized in Germany ready for action against Czechoslovakia. to be hoped that this Is not true, but mobiliza. tons being an important factor in power poli-there are reasonable possibilities that it is. The establishment of an independent Slovakia, probably in Customs union with the Reich and Under the political domination of Berlin would effect amount to a rounding out of Herr Hitler's policy of dismembering Czechoslovakia, and would be a preliminary step towards the accomplishment of his designs on the Ukraine, What 1s happening now was certainly not contemplated by the Munich conference, or most certainly not by either the representatives of France and Great Britain, and if in the end Cuechoslovakia is again carved up it will mer: ly be another proof of the instability of certain, International arrangements in Europe.
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