English Translation

-12_13 threat. Our organs have in no case touched foreign territory. On the other hand, it was clear that the border crossings, which were from the other side until recently under strict closure and control, were now taking place quite freely, so that the gangs of the attackers, armed with firearms of all kinds, machine guns and hand grenades, and with helmets, from which neighbouring German territory undertook their attacks on the territory of our state. If we had continued to watch this state inactively, he would automatically have developed a potential. For this reason, the Czechoslovak government, for reasons of self-preservation, to which every single being in the world is entitled, and all the more so a statex, which has given evidence of his extreme love for peace that has never existed in history, reached the point where its further passivity could be the cause of a conflict and could be blamed for the fact that it had made a breach of peace possible, even in debt, by inadequate safeguards. For this reason, a few hours after the visit of the envoys of Great Britain and France, the Czechoslovak government decided Friday night to announce the mobilization. These arrangements have been made by the Czecho-Slovak Government. Only for this reasongx to create conditions that enable it to act in peace and quiet. No one more reasonable will certainly be able to believe that the mobilisation of small Czechoslovakia can threaten someone. We are therefore emphatically repeating that the Czechoslovak mobilization has not been carried out in a narrow manner to the advice and signs of the Western European great powers, without whose approval the Czecho-Slovak government has not taken a single step throughout the course of the conflict that is at stake. Propaganda, which portrays things differently, is simply a lie and deception and does not have the intrusion, but the destruction of peace as its goal. P ragerTagb latt t Prague, on 27 September 1938 Prague answers Hitler * "The nation will not be crippled" * Peace with restraint is still possible on the other side. Hitler now openly pursues the tactics that all pressure and all attack should focus on Czechoslovakia in the coming days and weeks. In a way that has no analogue example in history, Hitler united his attacks against our President Beneš in his speech. Mekx Not at all did he notice the fact that it is President Beneš who has sincerely and thoroughly sought a just solution to the question of nationality in Czechoslovakia and a good relationship between our state and German hands. As far as the actual political meaning of Hitler's declaration is concerned, he stresses his thesis that there is actually no real difference between the requests of the English and French governments and the new memorandum of German government. Afternoon, the Prague radio showed clearly and clearly how important the difference between Hitler's first proposal and his new memorandum is. The last promotion of the German government goes so far that they are threatened with the most vital interests of the Czechoslovak nation. The new German memorandum also calls for purely Czech territories for Germany.