English Translation

29 - 2 - at this moment when this great treaty has been concluded, I ask all of you, csl. fellow citizens, never to forget in this struggle the power and significance of the truth, in which we are placed alongside the two great contracting powers of Great Britain and Russia, as well as beyond it by the U.S.A. It was a dark path that our people had to take. But when the Germans invaded Prague in the year l939, I was able to pre-determine the further development almost as it occurred. The guarantee for our victory is the policy that we have pursued in the last two years. Today, Jch already raises the complete certainty about our future victory. We do everything we can to speed him up. However, with all my actions I think of the homeland, the war broke out when Jhr became defenseless and expanded to the world war. What is happening today also terrible, it no longer concerns us alone, but the whole world, Dasdeutsche Gangstertum has become a European catastrophe. Look only at what the German gangsters have addressed to echo. Everywhere they have ravaged, in Poland, in Prankreich, in Yugoslavia, in Greece, in Norway, in Belgium and in Holland. Thus, not only a difficult time for the CSR came, but a catastrophe broke in all of Europe, which undermined all hopes of justice and freedom. We also had moments when Revit could have been despaired, but uneer people never let themselves be brought under control, but only strengthened their united resistance. Perhaps it was not quite easy for us to find the right attitude towards our enemy, who invaded the country. Today I can only say that we do not know any compromises and that there can never, under any circumstances, be talk of apparent cooperation with our great enemy. Even our great President Masaryk would never have let himself be moved to a compromise with Eitler, and this is the innermost conviction of every single Czech, and as far as I am concerned, I can only notice on the subject of "cooperation": "No, never! " For see for once how it happened to those who wanted to agree with Germany. Ls everything helped them nothing. What has Schuschnigg done about this? What has Prince Peul of Yugoslavia tried since 1937 to come to agreement with Germany. He even broke his contract with France and lifted the neutral position of his country. And has he thereby prevented the gangsters from his country? The present énieg reveals the greatest gangsterdom ever mentioned in the story. Even then, when Hitler began the government, I saw what development had to come. And l9s8 I clearly realized what ours was waiting for. From the year l935 I as president suggested that the disaster should not be stopped from our home, but from all of Europe. We did not do anything to anyone in the 20 years of our government, we worked and we supported the maintenance of peace. When the crisis came, we prepared to fight. He had already warned everyone, but Europe did not understand the situation at the time. We remained alone. They wanted to sacrifice us for the preservation of world peace, but it was all in vain. Today the democratic states decide that this was a big mistake and they admit it too. And so all the disaster has come. Now a so-called protectorate government pays homage with a sog. Presidents at the head of the method not only of a cooperation, but of a slavish submission, but the so-called tech. President Hacha has failed the right to still be regarded as representatives of the Czech people. The Czech people stand in the struggle against Nazism and the innocent Czech village Iidice becomes the symbol of our struggle. Our pilots and soldiers are fighting abroad , since l939 our formations have made preparations . And we can say that we have achieved full success . And in the meantime Hacha supports the naz. criminals did . rärtig in their bloody work