STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2562, sig. 109-12/209 Page 87 · 87 of 88
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2562, sig. 109-12/12209
English Translation
74 - 6 - the Prague Castle was provided by the mobilization in May 1938, which was designed by simultaneous diplomatic maneuvers as a challenge and humiliation of the empire. From then on the sudetenGerman question was immediately international character, since now the empire came into play - just after the departures of Prague itself. However, in a different way than the hopeful one. Thus, this apparently clever diplomacy, which in reality is overturning, has drawn the empire into the dispute over Czechoslovakia and given it precisely the political authority it tried to deny in letter. On the one hand, in the hope of intimidating the empire, it was the foreign policy of practice to bring into play the mathematics of the alliance's obligations, which first threw the militant power nittels into the struggles. The Munich conference was now nothing more than the execution of this unanimous European opinion on the untenability of Czech Slovakia and the complete sense of being able to preserve it with violence. This mature and deepened knowledge of European public opinion was the current which deprived the force of the Franco-Checho-Slovak treaty of formal application and made it morally and politically a dead letter. It is true that the Munich Agreement was only the political and international seal of the European public opinion's assessment of the