English Translation

2 Berlin, as they say, becomes more and more aware. Local differences play a more important role in the current German-Czech relations gaf's national policy and this has a very disturbing effect on the Czechs, for there is no people in Europe who have a greater attachment to their society and who would take so much to heart the removal of a monument and the change of a street name. Democratic methods in local administration were the basis of Czech national democracy and the ruthless way in which all Czech cities, where German minorities have a certain strength, are now managed by German commissioners, is one of the deeply felt Czech complaints. The Czechs wonder what autonomy actually means in their own affairs when they read to Mr. Franks Aasserung that Budejovice, a large South Bohemian city where the Czechs meet the Germans six times more than "despite all statistics, once a German city and again will be." Political observers compare the current span with that which prevailed during a few weeks before the occupation of Prague and believe that it is largely due to the sphinxy attitude of Berlin. But the Sphinx has two faces - one that smiles benevolently, albeit somewhat restrained, while the other looks threateningly. Prague, June 12, 1939.