The importance of the new Czecho-Slovak Republic to the Allies
was clearly explained by Professor Maaaryk, the first President, in an interview reported in Thursday's Times. Bohemia and Moravia and the adjacent Slovak lands will form, in the very centre of Europe, a democratic State on Western lines, which sill influence and strengthen its neighbours in Poland, Rumania, sad the Southern Slav kingdom of the Serbians, Croats, and Slovenes, now definitely constituted. The Crecho-Slovak Republic needs, first, regular communications with the Allies by an air service, and, secondly, secure frontiers. Professor 3isaaryk pointed out that, in determining the frontiers of the new States, nationality was not the only consideration. Bohemia, in particular, cannot be asked to pare off her bonier districts because the majority of their present inhabitants are Germans. Bohemia,.with its long and glorious history, must be treated as a whole and must retain its natural frontiers.
Previous page
