English Translation

7 Protectorate, and the Führer's decree would be in proportion to the execution. Whether this view is correct is of capital importance and therefore requires the most careful consideration. • Does German-Czech agreement and protectorate form An analysis of the agreement itself contradicts this view. What is its content ? The assembled statesmen have "examined in full openness the serious situation created by the events of the last few weeks on the up-and-coming Czecho-Slovak state." In the proclamation of the leader to the German people of the same day, this serious situation has been characterized by the fact that the same events that had led to the protection of the Sudeten Germans had taken place anew after a short few weeks, that against the terrorist regime of the Czechs the individual nationalities had now detached themselves from Prague, that the Czech Slovakia (as it is called by the leader's name to the Wehrmacht) "brinded themselves in disbandment" against. This was the German view of the situation, which was undoubtedly presented to the Czechoslovak representatives. Accordingly, the agreement continues: "On both sides, the conviction has been expressed that the goal of all efforts must be to secure peace, order and peace in this part of Central Europe. The Czech President has declared that, in order to serve this purpose and to achieve a final pacification, he trustfully places the fate of the Czech people and the country in the hands of the leader of the Beuchen Reich. The Führer has accepted this declaration and expressed to his decision that he will take the Czech people under the protection of the German Reich and guarantee him an auto-nome development of his people's life according to his own peculiarity*. In our opinion, the agreement means a double l. Dr. Hacha provides with his approval as the last representative