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

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English Translation

88.) to a major disaster. Since I have considered the achievements since the year I93l, the education, psychology, and the prevailing political conception in the authoritarian states and the state of their internal politics in mind, I absolutely deny the possibility that these two opposing regimes - the democracies and the totalitarian dictatorships - could stand and live alongside each other in peaceliah. One or the other regime must disappear if peace is to be renewed. So, how many people think that today's decomposition will continue for a certain number of years until the Europe of value in a large revolutionary movement, through which all European countries and states are gradually swept away, the contemporary political and social regimes are eliminated, and national, liberal and communist revolutions are unleashed here, will be completely destroyed? Or will everything finally be solved by a great world war ? Nothing further lies to me than to prophesy further new events or to proclaim the coming of great catastrophes. Iah has worked for 20 years on a constructive policy of peace; for twenty years I have scolded for peace in Geneva and helped organize the League of Nations; for 20 year I have done everything in my power to preserve peace in Czechoslovakia and in all Central Europe. When I ended up as a president just a few sohrites away from the war, and when the cshechosiovakisoh people were ready to take their country with the weapon in their hand until the last breath