STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2724, sig. 109-14/26

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16 strengthening of police and gendarmerie stations, training of border guards, installation of weapons camps for arming Czech and Marxist civil formations and effective armament of them. The result of this development: A completely defenceless Sudeten-Germanism sees itself at the mercy of a system of violence, loses faith in the Czechs for the pacifying compensation and appeals morally to the help of the Reich. d. This development is reinforced by the porting of the disenfranchisement policy in economic and social terms. Contrary to statements by the Government today, measures are still being taken by German state officials and state employees, promises by the government to recruit German people in the state service for the award of contracts to the southern economy will continue to be sabotaged. 6• In the government camp, oppositions to the need for powerful and fundamental decisions to resolve national issues break open. From the willingness of individuals to fundamentally solve the problems in the sense of far-reaching concessions to the demand for a state of preparedness for military action. /State Defence Act/ and the instigation of a preventive war are all views in it. Outcome of this situation of the Prime Minister: Ankiindigung of a "Minority Statute", which, according to a radio speech, is to codify all previous rights given to minorities into a law book. We rejected it as a "codex of injustice" xaget. The development around Austria meets the SdP in a state of dialogue with Hodža. Hodza emphasizes the willingness of the government to negotiate, envisages "problem solving" and calls for con-cretization of the view of the SDP. However, the promises made by Hodža in preparation for actual negotiations are not or are not being fulfilled to the extent that they are inadequate and therefore ineffective.