The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-23
CZECH TROOPS ON GERMAN FRONTIERS
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young republic had to fight would fight to the death.
 The iron grip of the army, and rain which dampened the enthu- siasm of voters, combined to keep peaceable yesterdays municipal elec- tions which precipitated one of the most dangerous international crisis since the World War.
 177 Elections Held
 Elections were held in TIT com- munities. Elections will be held in about 10000 more next Sunday and on June 12. Yesterdays showed gains of minority parties in minority towns; for Czechs in Czech towns. Intrinsically the results were unim- portant. But they showed the in- creasing alienation of the minority groups from the Czechs.
 Bitter hatred had been engendered by prediction clashes; Germany had asserted protective" interest in the German minority; the Ger man minority had complained that the government failed to preserve order; the government had called out army reserves as a convincing symbal of its determination to sat- isfy the minority demand for order and to make plain to any interest ed party in or out of Czechoslovakia. it's prior claim to preserve order and to take the primary protective in- terest in events on Czechoslovakia soil.
 Classified As Follows
 The TIT election communities were classified as to population as fol- lows: 96, including Prague, Czech; 48 German, 31 Slovakian, two Car patho-Russian. In the German towns the Sudeten party was given between 75 and 95 per cent of votes cast, gain of 10 per cent over the votes received in the 1886 parlia- mentary elections which themselves showed big gains for the Sudetens. Five large German centers-Tets- chen, Aussig, Turn, Sternberg and Boemisch-Leipa, voted yesterday Such German centers as Karlsbad | and Reichenberg are among 5000 communities which will hold elec- tions June 12.
 Big Sudeten Vote
 Typical of the vote in Sudeten towns was that at Aussig, largest | to vote yesterday. The Sudetens got | 19,784 votes out of 8 total of 29,- PIP for all parties, compared with 12,673 in the 1885 elections. This was | cheering for Henlein and his man. | They wanted to show the strength | of the German vote to support their | demand for autonomous govern ment. The Sudetens at Aussig ob- tained 29 municipal council seats against 18 in 1885. The German so- cial democrats, anti-Nazi, obtained | but four as against Il in 1885. Czech | parties held their own with six seats. | Communists obtained two seats | against six in 1885. Jews, entering | the election list for the first time, got one.
 Similarly Prague was typical of | the results in Czech towns. Czech | National Socialist party votes total ed 142,000 against 107000 in the 1885 elections; Communists 39,000 against | 70,000; Czech Social Democrats IT, 900 against 71,000; Right Wing Ma tional Union and National League | 10000 against 10000; Trade Party 34,000 against 37,0O0; Czech Agrar- ians 10000 against 17,00; Sudetens 15,000 against 15500; German Dem- ocrats 5000 against 1000; Jews g. 900 against 5000.
 Even here, where they enjoyed the support of no other group, the Hen- leinites were pleased because their enemies, the German Social Dem- ocrats, lost 2,000 votes.
 Premier Hodza last night received a deputation of leaders of the Sude- ten party, to confer with them re- garding the possibility of friendly negotiations on the proposed minor ities statute.
 Afterward the party executive met and repeated that it would not en- gage in any negotiations with the govbernment before guarantees were given to safeguard Sudeten Ger. mans aganist aggression.