English Translation

-4- Exports are the basis for satisfying the needs of the community which can be adequately covered by imports of foreign products. The care of exports, the embarrassing consideration of the needs of our foreign customers, the exemplary fulfilment of the wishes of our customers in terms of quality and delivery time, is the top priority for today and the future. And this is also the requirement of the Prague Fair, whose importance for trade relations with South-East Europe will grow in future. The western direction of the economy of the former Techecho-Slovakia was purely political and was not based on S878S natural conditions. It was, like the politics of the broken state, wrong ! In contrast, a deepening of the trade relations of the Protectorate with the South-East is in the line of a complementary exchange of goods and thus in the interest of a healthy and natural development of the participating economies. The South-east had in its historical development first and foremost close relations with the Danube monarchy. Since almost 7o per cent of the industry