English Translation

The rise of motorism, the revival of economic life, and the strengthening of state power as a result of the long-term links between their individual countries. Although the government of the former Czechoslovak Republic did not take into account the resolutions and demands of the Czech technicians, they knew that it was impossible to reject the extension of modern roads in the long term and that this was only a small insight of the relevant people, but that later on it would certainly come to the construction of such roads in Czechoslovakia. In the year l937, the well-known Zliner Grossindustrielle Dr.h.c.Johann Bata, besides the expansion of canals and railways, demanded the immediate construction of a long-distance road for Kreftfahrzeuge from Eger to Gr.Bočkov in Karpatorussland.Thus the question of building a road across the former republic was raised anew, and not only skilled men began to deal with it, but it also found great acceptance among the broad sections of the population and therefore aroused greater interest among the political and ruling circles of the former Czechoslovakia. Then came the September events of the year l938 with the implementation of the Munich and Vienna agreements.The borders of the new Czechoslovakia were determined exclusively according to the nationality principle.So it came about that many road and railway connections were interrupted and that the question of the construction of a Czechos-Slovak long-distance railway was raised.