The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-16
Czech Nation Becomes Part Of Greater Reich
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the army is eliminated and the Reich takes over military protection and foreign affairs of the states.
 All decisions over which the nom- inally autonomous administrator of Czechia and Slovalzia has power are actually subject to arbitrary ap-, proval or disapproval of Berlin. The head of the protectorate admins tration enjoys technically the rights and honors of the head of a state and Emil Hacha, former president of Czechoslovakia, was given full military honors when he conferred with Hitler at the big castle over- looking Prague this afternoon.
 But actually the administrators of the new territories are subject to the fuehrer's orders.
 The protectorate is given a rep resentative in the Reich government but is not permitted to elect depu- ties to the Reichstag as are other parts of Germany.
 About the same circumstances will prevail in Carpatho- Ukraine os Ruthenia, where the Hungarians are taking over and where they will be under powerful Nazi influence.
 Premier Paul Teleki of Hungary, announced at Budapest that, with occupation officially completed de- spite scattered fighting, the new Ruthenian area of Hungary would be given extensive administrative autonomy, under which only the army and finance ministry will be centralized with the Hungarian gov- ernment."
 Hitler's proclamation to the peo- pie of the seized territories said that foreign affairs would be conducted by the Reich in the interests of the protectorate and the Reich.
 Further, he announced, the pro- tectorate would be sunder German customs sovereignty.
 German blooded residents of the protectorate will become German citizens subject to the laws protect ing German blood and German honor. Other residents of Bohemia and Moravia will become citizens of the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia."
 The laws he mentioned are the drastic Nazi anti-Jewish laws. The "other residents" are Czechs and other on-German groups.
 The legal means of payment in the protectorate will be the German mark and the Czech crown until further notice, he said, the ratio between the two to be determined by Germany.
 Hitler Proclamation Read
 Joachim Won Ribbentrop, German foreign secretry, read the fuehrer's proclamation over the radio while Hitler, under the protection of -thou- sands of his personal bodyguards, secret police and troops, surveyed the scene of his triumph from be- hind the thick walls of Hradzin castle, overlooking the spires of Prague.
 He had appeared briefly on 8 bal cony of the castle, to receive the cheers of thousands of German resi- dents of Prague who had been as- sembled there to acclaim him. As they cheered, it was reported that his Gestapao, the dreaded Naz secret police, had arrested 5000 per- sons in Prague and that he had between 10000 nd 30,000 of his sol- diers in the city among total of 100000 in the country.
 The people had taken every op- portunity to show bitter hatred for their conquerors.
 From his castle, Hitler had sent message to his army, announcing that Czech areas were under sov- ereignty of the greater German Reich.
 Then Ribbentrop read the proc- lamation over a radio hookup.
 It was the anniversary of the day, March 16, 1885, on which Hitler had repudiated the Versailles treaty by announcing that he had re- introduced compulsory military ser- vice in Germany.
 In his proclamation, Hitler said:
 "For thousand years Bohemian and Moravian lands belonged to the sphere of existence of the German people. With force and lack of un- derstanding tthey were wilfully torn from their ancient historical setting and finally, through their estab- lishment as part of the artificial structure of Czechoslovakia, were made source of continual unrest.
 From year to year danger in- creased that from this condition there .would arrive as once hap pened in the past a new threat to European peace"
 He explained that Czechoslovakia had not organized it's national groups into one whole and continued:
 'The state, therefore, proved its internal inability to survive and as consequence has now actually fallen apart.
 In Interest of Peace
 "The German Reich in the inter eSts of its own peace and security could not tolerate continuing dis turbances in this territory which is so decisively important to the gen. eral welfare and to general peace.
 Sooner or later those powers which were most affected by the his- torical and geographical conditions of this situation would have had the most serious consequences to bear. I.
 Therefore it is in accordance with the law of self preservation that the German Reich is deter mined to reestablish in a decisive way a basis of reasonable central European order and take the nec- essary measures.
 Thanks to the strength sa well as the abilities of the German people she alone is called on to settle those tasks"
 Bohemia, M0ravia Status Then Hitler announced his for