STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2196, sig. 109-9/20

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12 Property of the Deutsches Nachrichtenbüro (DNB) Rohmaferial - Nur zar sehr persönlicher Wissenmahme des Empiänger. (Without editorial responsibility.) No. 283 12. October evening Angio Blatt - 21 - - - 1 Uncensored material! Not for publication! Chamberlainrede. - Literal Reuterfassung.ff...varried. The Polish state and its leaders will be covered with embassies. What will be the fate of the part of Poland, which Hitler called the German sphere of interest, does not clearly emerge from his speech. But it is evident that he is on the point of view that this only applies to Germany and that Prague can only be regulated in accordance with the German interests. In Hitler's view, the final limitation of this territory and the question of the restoration of a Polish state are problems which cannot be regulated by war in the West, but only by Russia on the one hand and Germany on the other. We must therefore conclude that the proposals made by the German Chancellor of the Reich for the creation of what he calls "the certainty of European security" should be based on a recognition of his conquests, and on a sound reoht to do with the erobextan territory what he likes. It would be impossible for Britain to take a golch base without giving up geine honour and forsaking geinen claim, *...0 ff