Evening star., 1938-10-16
CZECHS.AWA|T|NC
::..H|TLER MESSAGE
Foreign Policies in Future
Depend Upon Report
:, From Envoy.
~ the Associated Press.

D. the Associated Press.
PRAGUE, Oct. 15.-Determinat ton
Of the future foreign policy Of dis
niembered Czechoslovakia awaited to-
day full study Of = report by Foreign
Minister Frantisek Chvalkovsky on his
conference at Munich yesterday with
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler.
Az soon as Chvalkovsky returned,
Premier Jan syrovy called = night
session of the cabinet to hear his
report Of Chancellor Hitler's attitude
regarding the Hungarian negotiate
and CSechoslovak- German economic
cooperation.
Berlin Talks to Resume.
It was learned at the close of the
cabinet meeting that 4 delegation Of
four ministers would 60 to Berlin
early next week to resume discussions
with Germany.
Members of the delegation will be
Vladislav Feierabend, minister Of
agriculture; Joseph Kalfus, finance;
Imrich Karvas. commerce and in
dustry. and DR.. Hugo Vavrecka, minis
ter WltnOuG pOrtIoll0.
The resignation Of DR.. Vladimir
Fajnor, minister of justice, and DR.. M.
Parkane, minister without portfolio,
were accepted. They were said to have
left the. cabinet a. for reasons OF
heath. !" F-.3'3 =, -: =: :.
Premier Syrovy, holding firm to
program Of cooperation with both
major and minor powers. urged diver
gent political parties to unite in COM
mon cause to promote development
Of new independent state.
Willing to Work.
A spirit of willingness to work
characterized activities of officials un-
der direction Of the army trained pre-
mier. whose strong authority to de-
termine the lines Of reformation of
the mutilated republic was ratified
BY public opinion as necessary step.
Informed sources reflected the official
view against the term dictator" being
applied to Premier Syrovy. Patriotic
Czechs. 1t was said, are no more able
TO abide with dictatorship now than
auA AlS CiC PlCffouo ~ yCuIS VI CllC
nations existence.
The government placed high i'm
portance on 900,00O,000 crown
Cs30,s60, ,00O public works program
announced for construction Of new
railroads and highways to bind the
country together
Revise Constitution.
An ofiicial commission pushed work
on revision Of the constitution to
meet new governmental conditions and
. on plans for election of a successor to
DR.. Edward Benes. who resigned the
presidency to facilitate" the country's
rehabilitation.
Reports of the Czechoslovak gen
eral staff continued to emphasize oc-
cupation by German troops Of locali-
ties on what it considered the Czecho-
slovak side Of the new Sudeteniand
frontier.
They said large section, includ-
ing ii communes comparable to
American townships) had been taken
IN the vicinity of Turnov. The Daily
Bulletin cites particularly the occu-
patton Of Hodslavice, q village where
Francis Palacky, famous Czech his
torian, was born in 1893.
The general staff bulletin charged
the Sudeten German free corps was
mistreating Czech residents in vari-
Gus regions Of the occupation. Some
Of them, it said, were forced to do
heavy, humliating work"
May Cosy Swiss Government.
the work Of constitutional reform
proceeded with indications that the
new government set-up would be SINH
lar to that of the Swiss federation.
Bohemia was to take what was left
Of Moravia and Silesia, after the
German and Polish settlements, in
order to form an autonomous unit on
equal footing with Slovakia and Ru-
thenia.
Each autonomous state would have
legislatures which would send repre-
sentatives to a national assembly. It
vas expected the Prague, or central,
government would be made up Of only
the ministers Of finance, foreign af-
fairs, defense and = president whose
duties would include those of prime
minister.
ATTACKS ON CZECHS CEASE