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- 3 - How would the ČSR's attitude towards the other states and the League of Nations be? If the ČSrden non-aggression pact with Germany were to be concluded, it would have to leave the League on the model of Germany. Hitler's emissaries replied immediately. They said that ČSR would not have to dissolve the alliance with France or with other states. If there was a conflict between France and Germany or with the League of Nations or between Germany and the I USSR, the ČSR should simply not fulfill the treaties. It was clear and simple, it was Nazi. Hitler's envoy returned to Berlin. In the course of the 1936 Christmas holidays(on my part I prepared a proposal which was based on the Locarno Treaty. In the Jamuar 1937 I sent it to Berlin. My proposal respected the League of Nations, the Lo-Carno Treaty as well as the treaties with France and the UaSSR. Since then we had asked for a response several times, but there were none. For the last time, we demanded an answer on July 17, 1938, when the Czech-German crisis got worse. Hitler had already worked out his plans for the dissolution of the ČSR. Of course, we had informed all interested states and European governments about the matter.Since the year l933, I have prepared the military cooperation with Poland, Austria and Yugoslavia against the forthcoming German attack. With Minister Beck I did not come to any conclusion because he had concluded a non-aggression pact with Hitler in January l934. When the Nazi agents murdered Dr. Dolfus in Vienna on 26 July 1934, the Czechosl. proposal for a friendship agreement and the vote for a joint defense against the attacker was found on his table! When in the year l938 Dr. Benesch left the CSk after the Munich Diktat, he said to his collaborators that Europe is going to war. Even then, Dr.Benesch assured: "We will win again!"