English Translation

- 12 - This was a reason for serious concern for the large beautician circles. The nobility had been systematically prepared for German-friendliness in the forgotten time=. The old kinship and cultural relations with German families and German-doing formed a pretext for the various measures aimed at the economic basis of the nobility, in particular the land reform, which led to a large economic = weakening. The fact that the nobility often employed German officials in leading positions was also a thorn in the eye of the ruling circles at that time. Under these conditions, the land-holding nobility had to fear that in the palle of the outbreak of war with the sharpest measures against the large property would be taken. In order to eliminate this danger, he considered it necessary, in the situation at that time, where the outbreak of the war was in threatening proximity, to stress on the one hand that the nobility would like to use its best efforts to promote the integrity of the borders of the state, but on the other hand attach the greatest importance to achieving a balance with the Germans, who, as the statement emphasizes, are equally in the Bohemian countries, if they are resident and resident, in order to avert the danger of war at the last hour. At the time of the declaration, little thought was given to the possibility of joining the territories without war; after all, the Czech public became aware of the belief that any attempt of the region aimed at integrating the territories of the Sudeten, would: