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

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1 80 It would be easy to feel a considerable number of voices, which clearly prove that the insightful circles in England had fully understood the nature of the Teheehian question, e.g. Sfaelozrpbleeus, and understood the urgency of a radical solution. O._ Ullrich collected a series of samples in his book. Also important individual personalities raised their voice in this sense geivan reminds the sensational essays Prof. Toynbee pe in the "Economist". Steeds and Seton-Watsons are little important in view of the now known "foundation" of their conviction in massive cheques from Benesch's Reptile Fund (the evidence was handed over to European journalists in Venice on the basis of the files of the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs). m hafomn dtshig ifbur paouooueosaonmgg.ortq uop arsteiiung sehlieheh meeirder Final report Runcimanşyzu volikommen support of the German point of view, He acknowledged that the overall effect of Czech politics had to push the Sudeten Germanism "inescapably in the direction of revolt", he called the sudextenGerman "hope for help of their blood-related, and their desire to be connected to the empire, as under these circumstances natural development" and finally recommended its implementation in a "unreserved and drastic action" in view of this clear will of the people. t dret c e da r Front of nationalities within, but awch with the progressive and revision-decided elements of the foreign in contrast. The more the untenability of the nature of the Czech-Slovak state emerged, the more the letter of the obligation was applied. It was clear to the critical Beob eight of the then head of state what his final intentions were: war. That is why I also took the responsibility, at certain times, of the apparently prosperous negotiations between our ethnic group and the government.The completed proof of these last intentions of the yPrague castle was provided by the mobilization in May 38, which was designed by the simultaneous diplomatic maneuver as a challenge and humiliation of the empire. From then on, the sudetenGerman question was given the immediate international character, since the empire was now in line with the intentions of Prague.