English Translation

P Z D Presse-Informationsdienst vom 23. Feber 1939. with great presentation With the statement of the Foreign Minister Chvalkovský made by all the pages/rejection to the secretaries of the National Unity Party, the discussion about the German-Czech relationship has shifted more to the foreign policy area, although the interpretation of an early agreement between the German ethnic group and the Czechs and their repercussions on a fri- ous observance of relations between Prague and Berlin are not underestimated. "Národní Politika" presents in the editorial the concept of reciprocity in the German-Czech relationship in the foreground. In Berlin already in the autumn of the previous year, it had been stated at the first discussions that the new German-Czech relationship would develop on the basis of reciprocity, both in intergovernmental and economic transport as well as in the field of nationalities. Here, too, the principle that the Czech ethnic group in Germany should be granted as much rights as the German ethnic group is granted in Czechoslovakia. After the major changes in the previous year, this is a matter of course. The relationship in the ethnic groups that lasted until the autumn had changed considerably after the Munich decision. The German ethnic group in the Czechoslovak Republic had significantly decreased, while the Czechs had experienced a strong increase in the population in 'eutschland. Negotiations are being held in Prague on the future legal status of the German ethnic group in the čsR, and the negotiations on the position of the strong Czech minority in the Sudetengau are likely to take place. The paper then quotes the articles of the "Frankfurter Zeitung" and the "Deutsche Post" as proof of the good will on both sides to resolve the problem.