The authorities today confiscated the nationalist newspaper, Straz Rise, for publishing inciting articles against the German and Jewish elements of the population. Before the police intervened, however, a great many copies of the paper had already been circulated. The paper urged that before October 28, the national holiday marking the anniversary of the establishment of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, Prague should be “purified of all German and Jewish schweinerei.”
“We Czechs have been silent for twelve years,” the Straz Rise writes. “Our patience is at an end. It is time to deflate the swelled heads of the Jews and Germans. Down with a German-Czech government. Prague must set an example to the other cities and when Prague has been purified the other towns should follow the example.”
This inciting propagada is viewed with a certain anxiety in Jewish circles here although there is no doubt of the government’s announced determination to maintain order on the anniversary of the Republic’s establishment. Nevertheless the holiday is awaited with some anxiety.
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