English Translation

Vt T B1. 5 that they had gradually lost their will to live their own lives and decided to make every assimilation effort. Precisely the history of the Czech people in XVIII. Centenary shows how tough this cultural and ethnic will to live can be - at that time this people was in a situation similar to that of the Bretons to the French before the World War. For the Czech people, the last fifteen years have meant a single straight-line social renewal movement (mouvement de renaissance nationale), which has finally led to the far-reaching Czech demands of the year 19l8/19. This will to live and assert is nothing unnatural - it is characteristic of the Central European peoples on the contrary. However, today the German people in general and the Sudeten-German ethnic group in particular are apprehended by a no less elementary self-assertion will. However, despite their tendency, the minority protection treaties could have done a lot of good if it had succeeded in doing so in Article XIV(2) of the Treaty on the Protection of Minorities with Czechoslovakia.