STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2026, sig. 109-7/33

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1t0 -4940 Law has come into a serious conflict, will naturally have to be held responsible. However, it will be very sharp to distinguish between the really guilty and the deceived. No one will take revenge on the people for this, which some thoughtful minds have done. On the radio, a call was also read out by German teachers and professors, the university professor Priedrich Elotty and the teacher Josef Mudl. In this call, the Sudeten-German teachership of all types of schools is called upon to act in such a way that the trust of the peoples to each other is again strengthened and prudence re-entered into the country. Prager.Tagblatt Preg, 22. September 1938. The new Steat "against all just" Call to all: Stay suf Eucren places! Protection of the interests of the German population + There must be no disorder. Yesterday at 2l o'clock, the station Prague II broadcast the following: "The great crisis that has been going through since a few Jehren Eüropa has reached its peak in Central Europe in recent times. After 20 years of calm and order and the Priedene, our democratic state has been severely affected by the effects of the European crisis. As a result of the dynamic political currents from the neighbourhood, he became a threatened state.Unfortunately, when the most serious concerns came to an end and we were even threatened with violence, the Curopean crisis was of such a kind that our Preounds advised us to buy the peace and the priests through territorial sacrifices because they could not come to our aid. Our constitutional pactors wanted to resolve the conflict, which was taken as a pretext for the action against us, by an international arbitration court. However, this law of the Czecho-Alovak government and dea President of the Republic was not complied with. The French and British governments, in their communal demarche, which their di-bmatic representatives carried out at night at the Prieident of the Republic, pointed out to the Czechoslovak government that such a solution would not prevent the conflict. We stand before the threat of a war, which would not have threatened the size of our state, but also the very nature of the national existence of the techechen and Slovaks in a common, inseparable community. The government is determined to keep calm with all its strength and all its power and, whatever happens, to preserve the independence and freedom of the nation under the conditions that were so newly afflicted. The President of the Republic was able to accept, in common with the government, the request of the two greats as the basis for further negotiations, nothing else, because we were alone in it. The government will lead and guide the Steat under the new living conditions and believes that the National Assembly, which will be convened, will approve this ochweren decision on behalf of the people, if it sees its fateful reasons in experience. The government knows very well and deeply shares the feelings of the nation, its arousal and apprehension. It's oversized.