"No Such Nation!"

What schoolchildren puzzled by geography have often wished were true was loudly and abruptly asserted in Prague last week by the Rev. Father Hlinka. Shouted he: "There is no such nation as Czechoslovakia!"

While Czech police grimly looked on, a mass meeting of 10,000 Slovaks wildly cheered Separatist Father Hlinka who continued, "We Slovaks have our own traditions. We demand the dismissal of every Czech official in Slovakia!"

Three years ago the Czechoslovakian Government sentenced another Slovak Separatist to 15 years in jail for fostering just such ideas. Last week they let Father Hlinka and his fellow Slovaks talk, hoped they would do nothing.

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