STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1743, sig. 109-4/1498

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-2- 2y led the Henlein at that time, did not count to the Czech people, he was in charge of the former regime, which also rejects every national-conscious Czech with disgust. We value the national political rally of Konrad Henlein because he speaks to us as Sudeten=German, who grew up with us in the same milieu, but also as a man of the German nation, who was primarily involved in all internal political struggles until the fall of the Benesch regime. In his rally he notes the return to the natural laws; the return of the facts already expressed in St.Wen=zelpolitik and in the state politics of the Przemyslids. Bohemia and Moravia have established their respective relations in the German area and the finality and immutability of this fact is guaranteed by the greatness and laughter of the Great German Empire. With open straightness, which we gratefully acknowledge, he is aware of the gravity of the problems which today the new situation imposes equally on the Germans and the Czechs. It is now a question of bringing also the one relationship of the two nations into a natural and life-giving form, just as it has already happened outwardly. The Germans show - according to Henlein - the full willingness to achieve it; it is therefore mainly up to us that we all change the law of life of the existence of our nation in Central Europe = present and everywhere a ruthless correction there and there prevailing misconceptions, which imd led us into not too distant past and would lead us back to it, even plunge us into worse abysses, if we wanted to resist the elementary necessity of this um-birth or even want to slow it down. Only the worst and most stubborn enemies of the Czech people can insidiously convince us that the present state as well as the outer form of the relations between Bohemia and Moravia with the Empire is temporary and not, as it really is, final and unchangeable. Only the lying, lowly and the light of truth abominable propaganda of world Jewry, the Freemasons and agents of world democracies hiss in their underworld with impotent and gall, because it must realize that the Great German Empire will never allow the settlement space of the Czech people to become a planned be=