English Translation

We wanted to show the world that Czechoslovakia - a genuine, healthy, successful and democratic democracy - did not want to give other countries a sense of security, but was prepared to contribute to the general development of Europe. However, we did not expect such an agreement, as it was supposed to be in Munich without any participation of the Czechoslovak government. It was certainly an unjust decision, by which in the name of the self-determination of our German population more than 1,200,000 Czechoslovakians - which is more than 1% of the whole people - were allocated to other states. Let us understand well: a free, treacherous and democratic country was forced to hand its population over to a brutally oppressive state, on the basis of a unilateral decision which almost destroyed all the economic foundations of our state and gave the Tsohechoslovakisoh republic so artificial limits that the whole state was practically given into the hands of its powerful dictatorial neighbour from an economic and strategic point of view. The annexation of this state by Germany in Marz l939, a few months after the Minchen decision, showed that the Munchen solution was simply impossible, Sussserst unrealized. But asl we saw in September 1938 that our lo-million people surrounded by a people who tahit 80 million inhabitants and has a powerful war apparatus, no resistance