English Translation

Conflicts in Bohemia EE German Smiles and German Threats. Czech "Autonomy" By our correspondent. Prague, June 7, 1939. The Czech and German press continue to pay great attention to the recent speech of the State Secretary, Karl Hermann Franks, the Sudeten German, who is now the leading political figure in Bohemia and Moravia. On the Czech side, there is a desire to remove the existing ambiguities in the constitutional position of the Protectorate and the view that the situation could be eased if the ban on public gatherings were lifted. "The Czechs", write the conservative "Narodni Noviny", "hear a lot about the word "autonomy", but will have to integrate L e b e n s r a u m. It should be clarified once and for all what rights the Czechs have and what obligations they have to fulfil. It would be a serious misunderstanding to assume that those who campaign for their national rights would be supporters of Dr. Benesch. If so, the whole nation would have to be regarded as guilty." The German press is mainly concerned with the repetition of the threatening passages from Mr. Frank's speech, which was an example of what Karl Radek called "the appendage of carrot and whip". The attitude of the Sudeten Germans creates a barrier between Berlin and Prague, whose