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78 - 3 - England , which are led for our and the European Preisheit , fell. We want to pay special tribute to our fallen pilots. /At this point the reportage was interrupted - the broadcast was continued on records - the speeches were reproduced only in excerpts. We organize ourselves here abroad and work on the laws of our state until the victorious return to our home country. Ünser people alone will determine the state structure and the nature of his further political life. Our preparatory workers for the state institutions are permeated by the basic principle of the republic. From this basis our whole political counter-programme is also being worked out. I must stress again that we have never accepted or recognized the Munich Agreement. Just as everything that was connected with this agreement, it means a break of international treaties and our laws. What happened before and after Munich was not freely accepted by us and meant a violent violation of international standards. I did not welcome or ratify anything of what was carried out. Nor did our legal government give the approval to the occupation of our country. Even after Munich, which was dictated una by four great powers, what our government recognized was not respected in order to save the Prieden at least for a time. This treaty was neither adhered to nor carried out by the parties signed. We therefore did not consider ourselves bound to it at that time or today. I have never concealed this from any government. Today this is well known. At the time when the Munich resolution was presented to me, I knew that the time of the beginning of the war was not so far away. All this does not mean that we will do everything in the new republic to the last as it was in our old republic. It just means that we will not acknowledge anything that has happened, will not give up anything that was given to us. When we are back home, we will use not only the experience we have gained in the two years of our successful and happy state, but also the experience of this war and the events throughout Europe that will follow this war, which will reflect the meaning and ideology of that war. If, in this war today, we are faced with temporary victories of the authoritarian powers, I think this was mainly because most of the leaders of European democrats did not understand the meaning of what I said about war and struggle in time, because many of them still believed in treaties with dictatorships. But it did not come to these treaties because this was impossible and therefore the war had to come inevitable. 80 One country after another would be defeated, Munchen was the beginning to everything. Then came Poland, Norway, Denmark, France and now also resentment and Romania. Around Greece still successfully fought against. The real war actually began in Munich. Without the Munich victim of the CsR France and England could not have fought against Germany at all, it would not have been possible even in l939. Once Germany is conquered, we will know that the big sacrifice of the - 4 -