English Translation

Bai. -4- A few years later, he led a campaign of sanctions against Italy in the Abyssinian affair, which did not concern us in any way. On 1 October, Benesch said in Parliament: "States with a particularly dangerous geographical situation must know exactly the military aid they can rely on." As he knew this aid, the best evidence of this moving meeting of the government to Munich, in which General Syrový asked him if we, whoever could rely on a single ally, had to answer that not. On that day Benesch said: "It can be generally said that the consolidation of conditions is progressing, and that the internal crises, which are an inheritance of war, are gradually rebalancing themselves in the individual states". In fact, with this consolidation of conditions and crises, we were at the beginning of the biggest economic crisis that the world has ever known, with millions of unemployed. On November 5, 1924, Benesch said: "The question of peace agreements is gradually disappearing from the international discussion. In the course of time, it will become apparent that all the advances made to the peace treaties will lose any significance at all." In reality, the peace agreements were the foundations of all insecurity in Europe, they continuously aggravated the situation and, after a few years, led to the new world crisis. The self-proclaimed defenders of Benesch could still say that Benesch was always wrong, but that he was right now. That he was now right, if he explained how Europe would be regulated after the war, that he is right with the assertion that England together with America would win the war and Germany would lose him. That he is even right, if he asserts what he has already done several times and now also again, that the defeat of Germany is near and would not be long in coming. We do not want to lead this his claim ad absurdum ourselves. Let us, for example, speak to the English.