English Translation

123.) "To describe, on the one hand, the majorities, and on the other hand the duties of the minorities. Each people has the right to live freely and peacefully within its national borders. If these borders are at the same time its national boundaries, all the better But in Central Europe this is not the case; every central European state had its minorities. In today's war, especially the German minorities, who in all states have partly passively, partly actively become a tool of German imperialism, are becoming an international danger, no central European state will want to risk again what we risked in recent years, except South Slavia, Romania or Poland. But I don't know a recipe, which would make it ideal to solve the minority question. I also do not recommend a brutal and violent means, perhaps it is possible, in individual cases, to reduce the number of minority populations in individual Central European countries by means of local border adjustments - perhaps this will be necessary to move the minority population. All this, however, has a profound impact, and there are many minor and perhaps even greater injustices, but of course every people in Central Europe will see it as his holy right to punish with all rigour those members of his minorities who, through treason, espionage, torture