Troubled Czechoslovakia prepared today for its third, last and most important round of municipal elections Sunday, when 8,170 localities will vote for regional officials. Of the districts to ballot, 1,880 are Sudeten German. This will be the biggest of the three election Sundays, since only 250 localities voted in the first round, May 22, and 2,867 in the second, May 29.
Sunday’s vote is expected to throw definitive light on three major Czechoslovak political problems: the strength of the autonomist movement among the Slovaks; the degree to which Konrad Henlein’s pro-Nazis represent the German minority; and the extent of the electoral progress made by the National Czechoslovak Socialist Party, one of the major bulwarks of the central Government.
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