Die Zeit, organ of Sudeten German leader Konrad Henlein, reported today that Father Andrej Hlinka, leader of the autonomist Slovak People’s Party, was demanding proportional restriction of Jews in all branches of economic life. During last Sunday’s Slovak demonstration in Bratislava on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Pittsburgh Treaty, according to the paper, these slogans were heard: “Prague for the Czechs! Slovakia for the Slovaks! Palestine for the Jews!”
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