THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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118.) Creating unity, as was the Vöikerbund, would lead to the same unfortunate end as the first experiment of this kind, first of all those areas that belong to each other must grow into solid Blodks. I prefer organic growth from small to great, even if it must be slow, to the great whole, in which the members, who have not yet had the opportunity to recognize siah and live together, met prematurely. A condition for this will be that all these peoples be given a sufficiently long period of peace. This can be done through the realization of the 8th point of the Atlantic Charter, and Germany must not be given the opportunity to re-equip itself after this war and destroy its little neighbours by means of the Hitleric method by destroying one after the other, as has happened over the last four years on the whole of Europe. e) The question of national minorities The issue of minorities will be one of the greatest problems on the threshold of the new organization of Central Europe, minorities are everywhere, but in Mtteleuropa in particular, a really serious problem of the individual states, mainly as far as German and Magyar minorities are concerned. While other great nations - the English, French, Russians, Spaniards - the surplus of their population forces and their energy to other continents