English Translation

70 - 2 - I would like to point out that hostile propaganda theses of the present, born of pure purpose, cannot be a programme for European reorganization. From the beginning, there was no lack of warners, nor of British warners who saw in Czechoslovakia with its various tribes only a new reduced Austria-Hungary, but without its enormous historical brackets. Even one of the Committees of the Versailles Conferen had described the Sudeten-German question as the central problem of the state in a report on the "Pschecho-Slovakia" and almost prophetically added that it would probably become a question of life for the new state, whether it succeeded in winning the Germans as willing citizens. Over the course of the 20 years, the world became increasingly aware of the fact that the ruling Tehechish circle had struck this warning in the wind, which had only not made the Germans aware of it, but rather made it the bitter opponents of this state. No less became known, however, that the sudetenGerman question was the first but not the only part of the Czechoslovak state problem. In addition to the other questions of nationality, the ever stronger bitterness of the Slovak people drove the state, which was based on the fiction of a uniformly feeling Czechoslovak nation, into a total crisis from this side too. Today, Slovakian nationalism is suspected of being a "nutrition". This does not defuse historical and national pacts: not that Hlinka