English Translation

99 PZD Presse-Informationsdienst vom 6. März 1939 • INFNAMTIROLNOLNINEERPLCEUNPLANOGNEIN On the German-Czech relationship, the Czech Sunday papers take part in editorials, referring to the need for closer cultural and economic cooperation. Particularly noteworthy in this context is the external political commitment of the national working party to an all-sided deepening of Czech - German relations. The main organ of the party " Várodní Práce " writes under the Pitel : " The permanent foundations of our relationship with Germany " among others. the fateful question for the Czechoslovaks is to take the right fosition fmmhanmm xteex in the present strides within the great powers. Here, one must constantly have the geographical position of the Czecho-Slovakia in mind. The paper then lists the great immediate advantages that in the past have brought to the Czechs the very closeness of Germany, such as Christianity, modern economic forms, cultural achievements, etc. The Druok of Germany was often very heavy, but it caused a resistance in the Czech people, which contributed to the great tenacity of the Czech national character. The Czechs gradually admitted themselves to the centuries-long neighbourhood with the Germans as a natural thing. The spokesman of the ethnic German group Abgp Kundt_ demanded in one of his last rallies that the Czechs may look at the existence of the Germans in Bohemia as a matter of course and by no means hostile. Kundt has been living among the Czechs for quite a long time and knows from personal experience also from the National Assembly that the majority of the Czech people behave like this. . This also flows from the rare fact that even during the time