English Translation

258.) No state, other than a denocratic one, will, however, engage in a higher degree of decentralization if it is threatened by a movement or separateist aspirations. If he is threatened with the danger of losing a part of his territory, if he freely/sells them to those who aspire to decentralization, no one in the world will force him to voluntary decentralisation. If the subduing movement arises only from personal rivalries and ambitions, from cravings for power and party rule, it commits deadly sins and crimes against one's own state and the people. For every successful state decentralization in the democrat he needs a certain degree of political maturity and formation of the people and, above all, of its leaders. Sobst the decentralisation is unsuccessful. The former Dezmtralists then either rapidly change into centralists or they go even further to separatism and directly to the catastrophe of either their entire state or their closer local homeland. In today's war we have a number of evidences for this. Czechoslovakia will solve all these problems after today' s war - as well as other democracies. I believe that Czechoslovakia, as a state, has a significant degree of decentralisation and that it will be implemented in a reasonable manner and in agreement with the entire population.