New German demands upon Czechoslovakia with a hint of further military encroachment unless satisfied were reported by the Associated Press from Praha today to include adoption by the Czech Government of an anti-Semitic policy sufficient to prevent anti-Nazi activities by Jews in Czechoslovakia.
A New York Times correspondent reported from Praha today that the Czech town of Policka, which has been occupied by the german troops, numbers only ten germans, all of them Jews, among its entire population of 7,000.
American Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy has cabled an appeal to President Roosevelt from London in behalf of Sudeten German refugees, and Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald has cabled to various dominions urging them to receive refugees, time correspondent G.E.R. Gedye reported from Praha. The actions were taken after Wenzel Jaksch, leader of the democratic germans in Czechoslovakia, had interviewed them, among other leaders in Britain and elsewhere.
Konrad Henlein, german commissioner for Sudetenland, declared in a broadcast that his political opponents would get no mercy. “we shall imprison them until they turn black,” he said. Refugees returned to Sudetenland against their will by the Czechs thus far are believed to number about 20,000, Mr.Gedye Said said.
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