1 APRIL 1938, Page 6

Impressed by the reports in Wednesday's papers of the plain

speaking by the German minority in the Czechc- slovakian Parliament the previous day I took the trouble to ascertain precisely when last an ordinary member of the German Reichstag was free to open his mouth in that demo- cratic assembly. It was just over five years ago. Yt: according to Berlin the Germans in Czechoslovakia are " oppressed."