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

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852 kish nationalism as a "nutrition". No historical facts are thus disenforced: not that Hlinka has led his struggle for the equality of the Slovaks as a nation since 1918, not just to give another example, that his close collaborator Tuka was thrown into the dungeon in 1929 after a sham trial. Thus, a common understanding developed that the Czecho-Slovak state was ill in its construction from the root and therefore suffers from a fundamental state crisis. Conversions such as Czechoslovakia "the source of Europe's unrest", as "guépier de l'Europe centrale" express this insight in a nutshell. This state crisis was, as I have said, justified in the composition of the state, in the disparate interests and tendencies of its vièle nationalities. However, it was only the complete incomprehension and intransigence of the ruling circle that brought it to the fullest extent. In addition to their internal attitude, however, this official intransigence had its main cause in the international alliance policy of the state and the dogmatic belief based on it that France and thus England would automatically march for Czechoslovakia if one pressed the button in the Prague Castle. At the height of the crisis, a Czech publicist expressed this quite naively when he wrote that they could do with the Germans what they wanted, as the Western powers needed to go with them for their own interest, Zinister Morawetz rightly called for international public opinion to be a belief in the mathematical precisely this falsification of unsustainable internal political, national political conditions and foreign policy tension. KX Last but not least, and most crucial in the countries that were supposed to guarantee the integrity of Czecho-Slovakia, which was completely politically fermented, militarily with mathematical unrelentingnessty. From France, more and more decisively, the voices who indignantly rejected it "se battre pour le Tchèques", and the conviction that a political state could reasonably be guaranteed only if it proved to be viable and worth living.