Show BREAKUP OF OF NEW i NATIONS SOON IS PREDICTION Count Countries ies' ies Evolved From Fron War i- i Face Problem of I Surviving By Harold E. E Bechtol European Manager of N. N E. E A. A I BRATISLAVA March 19 The The Magyars Mag Mag- Mag-I Mag ars are openly asserting that within i iI I five years Slovakia Slovak a will again be par part of ot Hungary It is part of their propaganda says President Masa Masaryk of the Czecho CzechoSlovak Czecho Slovak vak yak republic We Ve re recognize he added quI quickly kl kly that the Slovakian question q contains danger and isone one of pur most difficult problems The German minority also presents serious difficulties MADE UP OR OF MANY RACES t I Czecho Slovakia contains a conglomeration con con- 1 on of races race's s almost as bad as old Austria There are Czechs Bohemian Moravian and SJ- SJ S Slovaks Germans Magyars Jews Poles and a scatterIng scatter scatter- ing of or others On One high official who h has s traveled extensively in central Europe since the armistice told me In my opinion the Czechs will lose bo both h Slovakia and German Geiman Bohemia Sooner or later I e expect pe t to see Slovakia joined with Hungary and probably both bothof of them with Rumania I also bell believe eye that eventually southwestern 1 German German- 1 r Bo Bohemia emia will be attached to Austria forming a it peninsula with Germany on one side and Bohemia on on the other II SERIOUSLY CONCERNED t This This- view is ig not justified by the facts pacts and ana It is certainly not the view of th the government Every Cz Czecho cho- cho slovak lOVak official with whom I 1 have talked from President Masaryk down regards material materia things such as long term credits and raw materials as aa much more difficult and pressing than racial or 01 political problems At At the same time President Masaryk Masaryk Ma Ma- and others are seriously con con- over the Slovaks' Slovaks distrust The Magyars said Masaryk are doing everything In their power to foment trouble the he big fact b behind the whole problem lem lam is la that It Is the Czechs who are running things The Slovaks here in Bratislava old on the Danube Danube Dan Dan- ube and throughout Slovakia all resent this Czech monopoly It wasn't their Idea of or what hat Independence was going to be i MASARYK IS POPULAR C President Masaryk l was born bon near the Slovakian frontier and he is a strong tie between Czechs 7 and Slovaks They all love him The whole n nation tion I I Germans and other races respect him Everywhere I have gone in CzechoSlovakia CzechoSlovakia CzechoSlovakia Czecho Czecho- Slovakia I have seen pictures of Masaryk Masaryk Ma Ma- in windows stores offices and homes homeL It is Js the prevailing view that now would be the time for trouble if it trouble trou trop ble were in store It is now flow that Czech invasion is at itt its pEtR now that the army must be beheld beheld e held in Slovakia and up to now the Slovaks have hav been suffering acutely from hunger and l lack of clothing That there has been no trouble so far would seem to augur well for the future As for the German situation President President President dent Masaryk says The German- German Bohemians are cooperating with us more snore and more I The most critical Ger German Bohemian an manufacturers agree that the situation is improving Czech feeling against the Germans is not nearly so acute as a afew afew few months ag ago even among t the he I I ing classes C I I |