The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-25
Out1uard Forms or NaziismA Are Outlawed
Germans in CzechOsavakia Are Determined to Resist Efforts to Make Them Loyal Czechs


 Editors Note: Webb Miller, United Press European news man. ager. tells today in another dis patch from Central Europe, how the Czechs are trying to stamp out Nazism among the 3,50O,00O Germans within their borders. He finds that the Nazi sympathizers consider the Czecns despots and are pressing their campaign for some sort of unity with Germany.
 By WEBB MILLER
 United Press Staff Correspondent) Copyright 1888 By United Press) Prague, Czechoslovakia, Feb. 25.- (UP) -Czechoslovakia, fighting to retain her 3,50O,000 citizens of Ger man birth whom Adolf Hitler wants to reclaim for the reich, has out- lawed all outward forms of Nazism.
 No Nazi flags fly here. No arms are lifted publicly in the Nazi sal- ute. Neighbor never greets neighbor by saying, "Heil, Hitler" There was no parade, no shouting last Sunday when Hitler in his reichstag speech proclaimed a protectorate over the 10,000,000 continental Germans nv- ing outside of Germany. Laws for bid.
 But occasionally on soft soil one sees the imprint of the Swastika- made by a Nazi sympathiZer who has outlined the Nazi cross in hob nails on the soles of his shoes. In that way the Nazi sympathizers in- dicate their defiance of Czecho- slovakia and their determination to achieve some sort of unity with Germany.
 Most of the 3,500,000 Germans who live in Czechoslovakia are con- centrated along the German from tier. Sixty per cent are members of the Sudeten Deutsche party which gets its inspiration and basic politi- cal direction from Berlin. It is sig nificant that Konrad Henlein, lead CT of the party, has gone to Berlin ostensibly to attend 8 concert. Few QOuDG tlldI IlC VIII COAl1C1 WAVAA ANoo' officials while there.
 In his absence the campaign of the Sudeten Germans against Czechoslovakia goes on. Since Hit ler's reichstag speech two fiery ad- dresses have been made by Sudeten delegates to the Czechosloyakian chamber of deputies.
 We refuse to be subject to Czech policy any longer" shouted Deputy May. We Sudeten Germans feel that the time of helplessness and weakness is past. We say go on with your despotism if you wish but remember that you and your children will bear the conse- quenceS."
 The last sentence was ordered stricken from the chamber records, but the Sudeten Germans will not be quieted. Deputy K. Frank made a speech at CarlSberg along the same lines:
 Since we were not present when the state erected its constitution we cannot recognize CzechoSlovakia as a national state. We have never renounced our right to Self-deter- imitation and we have said that in parliament time after time."
 The Sudeten party has 42 seats in the chamber, making 1t one of the largest political parties. I went to the party headquarters on ope of the principal Prague streets. There were no Nazi salutes, flags or uniforms there and the official to whom I talked, Dr. Wilhelm Sebekovsky, was calmer than the Sudeten deputies.
 He said the Sudetens welcomed Hitler's reichstag speech insofar as 1t applied to racial and cultural unity with the reich. The Sudeten goal, he added, is territorial self. determination within the frame work of Czechoslovakia, not territo- rial attachment to Germany.
 He assured me that the Sudetens would continue to work for their aims through peaceful, parliamen- tary means rather than by recourse to violence. Sebekovsky charged that the Czechs, ever since the formation of the republic, had dis criminated against the German minority by:
 l. Depriving them of their fair share of government positions.
 ?. Showing favoritism in granting 00yarnmnnt contracts
 3. Barring 100 books published in Germany. including Hitler's My Struggle"
 4. Barring German lecturers and musicians