Thursday, 14 November 1929

Prague:  

Foreign Minister Edvard Benes rejects a demand from Hungary that a strip of Czechoslovakia containing 650,000 ethnic Hungarians be given to Hungary.  Such enclaves -- ethnically linked to one country but politically trapped inside another -- are not uncommon after the Allies drew new borders on the map of Europe to carve up the old Austria-Hungary Empire after the World War. 

In response to Hungary’s demand, Benes says that, instead, closer economic ties will make the border between Czechoslovakia and Hungary seem “practically invisible.”

 China:  Severe fighting in the civil war is reported at Tengfeng.