STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2562, sig. 109-12/12209

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66 8 Republic in välkerrechtliohen Fornen demanded, in Mars 3939 is ee in the rors dee steaticher sutcnomen.protectorate erfelgtie here classification of the techechiechen people is space_ Tdis Saccihing seneren fate. It is dictated by cold around dea deukschen yolksbody Bewte eoMyoss f history and wirteehekt. The porm of the gdettdecht Brantranff autonomous protectorate means a solution day problem of the political order of Bohemia and Moravia, around which the best spirits of the 19th century struggled in vain in the context of the monarchy. Mr Jen lepstepfa Cre iermdmslor ir that the teche-slovecisian state problem and the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia cannot be brought together 17.11.39 rn bz hang, we have, by the way, a classic 6 fo APrtellinat confirmation in the British Prime Minister's speech: Ministers Chamberlain in Birmingham on 17 March l939. Cham- berlain explained the following, one day after the establishment of the Protectorate: "It has been claimed that this occupation of the Techecho-Slovakia dol uni@teléère was a consequence of the survey I carried out last autumn in Germany and that, since the results of these events had been in the dismemberment of the results achieved in Munich, it had been proved that all the changes which had taken place under these visits had been erroneous. This is one of the indefensible Sohlössfelgerungl,The facts, - d d ad e e e a matter, as it existed last September, nothing to deal with - since Dad do blem.