English Translation

Minister of State Frank recently recalled in his article in the "New Day" the strange faith which the ruling circle of the Republic, 17a including its head, the French alliance and all that was attached to it. It was a semi-religious, semi-determinative belief in the mathematical validity of this alliance. The sentence of Bismarck, born from extensive experience, which always belonged to the political treaties, to the circumstances from which they arose and from which it was conditioned, necessarily attached to them the "clausula rebus sucstantibus", was apparently regarded as an old iron which no longer applied in the light of the new order of the League of Nations and collective security. But precisely the collapse of the Czech alliance system is a model for the eternal validity of this insight, which Bismarck invented in the rest of niçht, although of course classically formulated. The functioning of the Czechoslovakian-Slovak-French alliance relationship was based on a concrete neighbourly situation, namely on the power-based low of the German Republic. The disarmament and Rhineland clauses of the Versailles Treaty were its existential prerequisite. For Czechoslovakia, the complete fragmentation and impotence of Sudeten Germanism was added as a further exaggerating addition. These foundations of the axis of the alliance relations faded to the same extent as the German force vacuum has shifted since 33 to an increasing upsurge of forces. Nevertheless, the official foreign policy of the castle remained in its complete negation of the renewed empire. Every appeal to the fundamental revision of this relationship was answered with a tender-stud grip on the breast pocket, in which the paper of the Covenant Treaty and with it seemed to hide the bodily security. One is tempted to think of a pensioner who has so far saved his capital from labor and who, in full inflation, finally pushed to work, rejects: what do you want, I have my bills. According to Bismarck's occasional further formulation, politics is the most accurate forecast of how a particular person will behave under certain conditions. From this point of view, the head of Prague's foreign policy should be discredited once and for all. He has replaced the real evaluation of rapidly changing folic circumstances and their probable consequences with a rigid belief in a never-existent degree of validity of covenants. He has thereby, on the basis of an equally rigid personal drive for validity, failed to make a major revision in the relationship with the decisive neighbour.