Show I Takes Exception To Statements Ij I Editor Telegram In tho the January se second ond Issue The Telegram there thero was ancle an J cle about Czechoslovakia iSSI U b upon the tho observations of r These ath t however were far tar from the and tho the entire article cannot Ii e accepted as reliable Vp f For example tho the the Czechoslovak republic IS r given by this I 1 as The populatIon populations Czecho Czechoslovakia Is 19 t f h Czechoslovakia never hady v standing army of ot men j jeven even In tho the second y year ar of ot her when the Magyar bol bole viks overran almost one third L her territory The Tho army of ot Slovakia never consisted of t ot-t than and now In SP spit t tho the surrounding conditions army is below belov I For almost eight centurIes separation the old state stat 0 of M I Ivia t via was reconstructed Into a a. aK f e tion under the name of ot CZ i Slovakia In 1918 1018 The name C 5 Slovak Is a Joining of ot Czech rr e Slovak two Slovak branches of ot the tho s western Slavic race who ii ar for tor over years Tie Th The tore lore there Is a great street stretchy Imagination If anyone speaks speaks' ar a 1 a forced domination of the Cz Cad i over tho the Slovaks of Whom tj l are arc In the tho republic it JK There are arO no Croats In CZ Slovakia the Croats belong to IA southern Slavs and are a II aIng connin conn in Ing part of ot the Yugoslav rd The statements given b bj on the tho above l topics aro are Incorrect same can be said about the o t statements i i. i e e. militarism I French money Very truly yours fl MILAN GETT S |