English Translation

- 14 - S2 by the visit of our German settlement area. The alarmingness of the foreigner due to the found relations is reflected in urgent appeals to the Czech Bürghifen juiGovernment and attacks them under pressure. On the other side, activist MEP Jaksch openly admits in the budget committee that activism is bleeding out without success, and the BdL-Obmann Hacker explains at a country youth meeting: "The politics of the BaL is missing!" The municipal trial elections, which were carefully arranged with the help of the activists at the beginning of December, show that the position of the SdP has not been shaken, but has become even firmer and that therefore nothing is too open to further erosion and starvation policy". The Prime Minister Dr. Hodža responds to a sharp speech by Dr. Rosche in Parliament: "The debate on the German problem was instructive and desirable for the government. It proves that in public opinion the view is growing that we have to solve the nationality problems, as long as they have not yet been resolved. There is no reason for us to speed up the process of solving the problem of internal administration, regional and minority issues, following the settlement of irresponsible tasks of economic, financial and defence of the state." This time, he explained to all the public that the regulation of this major domestic problem had not yet been resolved. The most important thing in this declaration, which contained only promises for the future, was that it did not take place voluntarily, nor could it be regarded as a result of the political work of the German activists, but was based solely on the political predicament that was created only by the work and the struggle of the Sudetendeutschen Party in Germany and abroad. The unacknowledged recognition of this increasingly rapid situation prompted the Prime Minister to announce on 24th January 1937 in a radio address that the government was prepared to deal with the German government activists on the real solution to the minority issue. However, punctuations and attempts at reconciliation would not be possible:" The beautiful, noble tradition of the minority politics of Czechoslovakia since l926 logically all this emerges,