English Translation

-15- If we look at the provisions of the Statute of Nationalities which have been proposed so far, it does not give rise to the exception of the heading B. 2; in principle, the proposed general rules are based on the idea of the Czechoslovak national state. This means that the Greek and the Elovak people are the people of the state and the other peoples and ethnic groups have only a second order right, there have been a number of exceptions for aie, or the existing exceptions there and there have expanded somewhat. This is not entirely incompatible with the principle of equal rights of peoples and ethnic groups.The spirit of this view is that all the institutions of the State have a Czech character and that the other peoples have to recognise this fact and that they are granted only the best protection. However, as in Section XII A3, these institutions do not primarily serve to protect the non-Czech peoples and ethnic groups, but to protect Czech bordermen in German or other national areas of settlement, who were only pushed there after l9l8 as a clinical outpost of the Czech expansion urge and who are now to be given the opportunity to hold their posts created violently by these prohibitions, under the reckless exodus of Czech supremacy. This means an impediment to wrongdoing. In fact, the present part of the Statute of Nationalities is nothing more than a codification of already existing legal regulations which is sufficiently proven by the fact that, despite their existence, national discord in the Czechoslovak state could take such a catastrophic measure. The Reetimsnmsen at.nt