English Translation

1 Memorandum . A. The main conference of the SdP for 1938 was originally planned for 26 and 27 March. There, a large-scale historical-political analysis of the development of the "Czechoslovak problem" was to be given after 2o years of the state. B. The events around Austria solve aust 1.) The process of unification is brought to an end in the deeply troubled Sudeten-deutschtume. /Liquidation of the activism of l926 and the politics of the l8.Fe-ber 1937, dissolution of the BdL and DGV/. 2.) The fiction of the Czechoslovak nation state breaks apart. On various occasions, the front of the dissatisfied nationalities is united against the Czech system of rule. /Parliamentary Declaration of the Sudentendeutşchen, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Karpathorussen of 29 March 1938 and support of this action by declaration in Budapest and Narschau/. 3.)On the Czech side, the problem of the existence of the Czechoslovak state becomes aware of in the masses, in party leaderships and the government. a. Anxiety psychosis of the borderlers, political mobilization of Czech border struggle associations /Jednota/ exploit the situation by the Czech left front, monstrous incitement in the Czech boulevard press. b. Demonstrative and agitational emphasis on the anti-German concept of the Czechoslovak state and the resulting alliance commitments of France, England and Russia. The article by Dr. Kříž, Secretary of the Minister Bechyně, in the "Pravo lídu": " ... We can do what we want, even if we do a bad policy, Russia, France and also Great Britain march with us into the world war . . . ". c. Excessive continuation of the creeping mobization in the border area. Expansion and occupation of the fortifications, Trupyeo concentrations, Ver-