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t2 - 9 - did not succeed. We were not allowed to go into the struggle with united forces." On. this basic attitude can and must be and our attitude to behaviour/in the state crisis lg38 is reduced. Our previously outlined assessment of Beneš's attitude to the internal political attempts to solve problems has been proven to be completely correct. I leave it to you to see how far Lord's Runciman really believed the claim that the Sudeten German "extremists" were responsible for the failure of these negotiations, or how far they should be diplomatic aid to the then Prime Minister Chamberlain. It is certain that the statements made by Beneš himself fully confirm our judgement at the time and the corresponding behaviour, which states that the President did not want any real compensation with us at all, since he always sought war, and subsequently experienced an unqualified justification. Thus, Lord Runciman's assessment of the "debt" of the sudeten German "extremists" has already been proven to be historically incorrect. Instead of the apparent guilt of the SudetenGerman radicals, the real war guilt of Dr. Beneš, admitted by him himself, is now also Beneš's tactical guideline in the decisive state crisis of l938. Since August and September l938 it appeared to him, as he repeatedly emphasizes, as "the best solution of the crisis" not to give in to the price of a war. "Until the last moment I preferred the resistance and thus an eventual war!" Will we be better understood now, where these confessions of a beautiful soul are printed and spread throughout the world? Our distrust of the fine words of this man of balance and peaceful development? Who can blame us for not expecting anything from negotiations, where we felt a completely negative, even aggressive attitude, even then that attitude, to which Beneš now proudly confesses himself publicly? 7. - 10 -