STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2562, sig. 109-12/209 Page 92 · 92 of 88
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2562, sig. 109-12/12209
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Heriplat Dan fiotn Hetoput Ie sfabn Natiomaletto Forgotten insights.Dindleorofln ime The British opinion/and the Czech-Slovak state proletariat. When, in the midsummer of 1938, as one of the spokespersons of the Sudeten German Party, I confronted the Lord Runciman with the sudeten- deutsche Ausfassung of the Czechoslovak state problem, the response was, as expected, diplomatically veiled. The fact that a British statesman, no matter what his official name was, was quickly sent as a Boebacher and mediator to a European state which a 20-year-old political development had made visible before the eyes of the world to what he had been from the beginning: a bundle of nationalities, united only in the aversion to the state's constitution and constitution. The unusual of the mission Runcimans was only the expression of the unusual of √x situation of the state and thus a menetekel. From the very beginning, there was no lack of warners, nor of British warners who saw in the XAkkKAkxMKgXaax Czecho-Slovakkei with many different tribes only a new Austrian-Hungary, all-unNagb, only sons of his waltzed faces. Even one of the commites of the Versailles Conference aht has described in a report on the 'Checho-Slova-kei the sudent German question as the core problem of the state and almost prophetically felt that it would probably become a question of life for the new Staat whether it succeeded to win the Germans as willing citizens. Over the course of the 20 years it became apparent to the increasing extent of the world that the ruling Czech circle had made this warning in the wind, the Germans not only did not win, much more bitter opponents of this state. No less was known, however, that the SudetenGerman Prague was the first but not only part of the state problem. In addition to the other questions of nationality, the iscon Voehco, in particular, pushed the Slovaks' bitterness ever more strongly into the state, which, after all, was based on the fiction of the existence of a uniformly feeling Czech-Slovak nation, also from this side into a