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22.1140 - 2 - Danish Commentary: ( Spoken by a Fruu ) Hungary has therefore joined the three-power pact. Danit has now already liquidated both powers, which play a role in the Roman Prctokollen, namely Austria and Hungary. Hungary has joined a federation as a member, but in effect Deutschlabd rules there. Hungary has surrendered to the German army, which will always drag this country into a war as it pleases. Ribberttrop has declared that further powers will follow. This is easily possible, but it will not happen voluntarily either, as in Hungary. Germany is thus approaching the Gfenzen Ruasland from all sides. Han must not overlook the fact that Ruasland is also threatened by the axis. - A further lecture by Minister Stránský from his lecture series on the necessity of the Czech revolution follows: Our revolution against Austria was only a continuation of more strenuous attempts at freedom from earlier times. We wanted to be free again from any stranger. But through our struggle against Vienna, we have only freed ourselves from a sub-dricker who had offered us at least a modest place within the framework of the peoples of the monarchy. We had our representatives in Parlanent, we had representatives in the ministries and even ministers in the government. Once these conditions of that time are not similar to those of today, in order to understand that if today's goal can be nothing else than the revolution against the German oppressors. March l939 invaded our country, the senior demagogue asked in his decree that our countries were actually already l.ooo years belonging to the German Reichs and had now returned to the Reich. By this stupid lie he wanted to explain his stroke of violence and beautify. But this German empire, which he meant, was never eine imperialist dictatorship, but an association of free peoples. The emperor of this empire was elected by the princes and the Bohemian king was one of the most powerful of these princes, yes, guided the fate of this kingdom itself. Today, however, nan cannot speak of a right of the empire to our countries. The Reich was only a habitat for the German people, but for all peoples of the Reich. But the German People had special tasks in this Reich, by virtue of its facilities and natural preconditions. However, the German nation did not perceive these possibilities and truly European abandonment. It aspired to the Pangermanian state power, of which we Czechs did not want to know. Today the kingdom should become our grave, look only what the Germans made of our right hand, our constitution. On March 5 Hitler solemnly declared in his proclamation that the Czechs had the reclt to settle their affairs themselves. But the Czechs only seem to have received the right to express our will themselves and independently. The autonony was given to us in one article of this proclamation of Hitler and taken again in the other. The territory of our countries belongs to the territory of the empire. The Germans living in our country are imperial citizens, etc. Our Boge-called president is only a doll, which is dependent on the will of litler etc. ..... (Here the mission would be particularly disturbed and a grose part of the lecture remained unintelligible!) .. Dr. In his often quoted address ia Berlin, Goebbels interpreted that the Czechs had the choice to join the idea of the Reich and to participate in the reorganization or to remain in the inner viderstand. But if England was only a:al defeated, - 3 -