English Translation

-15- 16 would be around the greater part of their iron industry, around the Beumwoll industry, about the glass industry, its ceramic and chemical industry, etc. All industries on which the Czechoslovak export rnk is based would be destroyed and mutilated. The natural consequence of this would be a reduction in the standard of living of the entire population, an increase in unemployment and emigration. To this end, the Czech Republic would face the problem of providing for the masses of the Czech and German peoples who would leave the area which should fall to Germany for fear of the unilateral brutal Nazi regime. These economic damages, which Czechoslovakia would threaten when accepting the demands of Hitler's memorandum, are still associated with far-reaching consequences of the implementation of this demand in the field of transport. As a result of the assignment of the territories required by Hitler's memorandum, the main railway and road lines of the Republic would be torn apart. The direct connection between Preg and South and North Slovakia would be as impossible as the connection between Prague and South East and North Moravia. The gente Republik would be technically torn into three pieces at all and without proper and direct connections. Here, the Czech Republic would also be around its transhipment stations on the Elbe and around the access to Pressburg. With one word, it would be paralyzed in traffic-technical terms until the complete fainting. Military paralysis Under these circumstances, the implementation of Hitler's memorandum would also paralyse the republic militarily. The Czechoslovak territory, deprived of its natural mountain borders, narrowed by the rejection of extended German, but also mixed and purely Czech territories, whose western line would be connected with the eastern part of Slovakia only by a narrow strip, would be at the mercy and mercy of the strong Nchbarn, in concrete terms, i.e. at the hands of the German Reich, all the more so as its war-industrie and its most important fortifications would be lost and, given the territorial situation, no new fortification could be built. In reality, the conditions of Hitler's memorandum mean that the whole West of the Republic, both Bohemia and Moravia, was handed over to the German Empire on grace and grace. If it is to be assumed that Hitler's memorandum could have arisen from ignorance of the actual national and economic conditions of the republics, one must see in it the desire to paralyze the Czechoslovak state to complete economic and political powerlessness and in this way to contemplate the complete domination of the Central European area by the German Reich. The Czechoslovak government has expressed the best will to resolve the sudeten German question by going to the extreme border and adopting the French-British proposal as the basis for an agreement. This firm and determined will has not changed even under the new government, at the head of which is the inspector of the Wehrmacht General Syrový and with which all the Czechoslovak parties that form the state fully identify themselves. Willingness to reach agreement The Czechoslovak Government is convinced that a real agreement and peace can still be reached on the condition that the Western greats, France and Englend, insist on the proposals agreed in Berchtesgaden, which they submitted to the Czechoslovsky Republic on September 9, and which were adopted by it.