The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-21

der the provisions of the national defense law. They emphasized that it was intended particularly to maintain peace during the elections
 A government spokesman said that the call did not mean that Czechoslovakia was mobilizing or even partly mobilizing. It followed the protest of the Sudeten Germans yesterday that the forces of law and order were not maintaining peace in some areas.
 As the call was issued, reinforced police suads patrolled the streets here and in other towns as enmity between Czechs and minority Ger mans approached its climax. It was in this atmosphere that the cabinet council had met late last night.
 BERLIN PAPERS ANGRY
 Berlin. May 21.-UP)-News- papers joined today in chorus of angry denunciation of conditions in Czechoslovakia and, in effect, de- manded that the Czechoslovak gov- ernment take immediate action to end alleged aggression" against the German minority.
 Newspaper policy is controlled by government agencies under the to- talitarian principle and, to make the campaign the more impressive, such newspapers as the Voelkischer Seo- bachter, official organ of the NaZi party, and the Essen National Zei- tung, personal organ of Field Mar shal Hermann Goering, economic dictator, joined in it.
 The articles were interpreted in political quarters as indicating that certain quarters in Germany wanted to give the Czechoslovak govern ment to understand that Germany may lose patience if alleged "inci- dents" continued.
 Troop Movements
 AS regards reports of German troop movements on the Czecho- slovak frontier, it was said in well informed circles that Sir Neville Henderson, British ambassador asked Under Secretary Baron Ernst von Weizsaecker at the foreign office yesterday regarding them.
 Weizsaecker was said to have re- piled that the troop movements were merely thetransfer of troops from winter to summer quarters.
 Henderson also discussed the gen. eral Czechoslovak situation and the Spanish civil war, it was understood
 The keynote of the newspaper editorials, which were regarded as of considerable importance, was that the situation in Czechoslovakia was intolerable not only for the Sud- eten" German minority but for the German nation.
 Banner Lines in Papers
 Banner lines in the papers, over editorials discussing election cam- paign clashes, were "Intolerable Pro- vocation;" Czech Gendarmerie At tacks With Firearms and Bare Swords" Czech Soldiers Attack Peaceful Germans" Germans De- fenseless Against Czech Provoca- tion."
 "The Prague government is exclu- sively responsible for the aggrava- ton of the situation in the Sudeter German region," said the Voel. kischer Beobachter, the Nazi party organ.
 Tn face of the methods applied by the Czechoslovak government is emphatically pointed out on the German side that not alone mem- bers of the Sudeten German minor. ity but the entire German nation considers the developments of the last few days as intolerable ano regards continuation of this terror. ism as an attack upon the rights ane life of the Sudeten Germans" saic the Essen National ZeitmG.
 Germany, together with . larg, section of world public opinion, ask. the question where these develop. ments in the CzechoSlovak stat.