English Translation

A b s c h r i f t ! 133 translation. Telegram Washington, June 3, 1939. Arrival: June 3rd 1939, 10 p.m. Auswärts Berlin. No. 186 of June 3.6.1939. Excerpt from Benesch's speech at the General Assembly of the 3rd Congress of American Writers at Carnege Hall in New York. - My answer to the question: "Will there be a war in Europe? " is: "It is already war in Europe today". Does it not mean a violent brutal and barbaric social revolution and a moral revolution when the entire system of international legislation is destroyed by the political practices of authoritarian states. Since l932, the statutes of the League of Nations have been sabotaged and the most fundamental articles violated. One treaty after another is being violated and destroyed.The interference of the authorities states in the internal affairs of their neighbours has become a system of their daily politics. They kept making public speeches, making statements and making statements that brought with them a public betrayal and a misconduct of their own nation within and among the other governments outside. They gave their word a hundred times and broke it a hundredtimes. They took every kind of vows and they did not make any. They have signed new treaties and they have all violated them. They have all heard how the German dictatorship destroyed the beautiful country, called Czechoslovakia, where beautiful forests are destroyed and transported as timber to Germany, where public buildings, especially military buildings of their window frames, their Fenster glass and all materials are undressed. Where all gold, all raw materials, all supplies taken and to Germany IV P