English Translation

-3-- 28 threatens the German rights of life or is misused to enforce power-political aspirations of certain imperialist great powers of democracies. The sure Wegx leads to a common future by finding the best and most fruitful form of a friendly and ehh= sufficient cohabitation of both nations. The history of the Sudeten = Germanism is for the Germans and also for us the teaching that the nationality problem cannot be solved by force; and this is also a guarantee to us that no German thinks of any totalitarian violence, but that every cynical self-power against = is single and distant from the Czech people. After all, the fate of the Czech people in its rise and descent was always bound to the schiksal of the German people and empire. The experiences of the last twenty years are proof that any resistance against the German nation and empire is a veritable mistake; we have always paid on it. If we understand our hundred years of continuous strong and natural relations of an economic and cultural nature, each one must succeed in realizing that the Czech nation's own interest in life demands that it find a relationship of cooperation and friendship with the German people. It is precisely the collapse of the old state that has clearly shown that all former alliances, assistance pacts and economic and political treaties are not enough, where political and economic relations are overlooked, which have grown through natural laws and history. The regime of democracy) which dominated the old state has never allowed or given the Czech people the freedom in the political power that alone would have made it possible to establish healthy relations with its greatest neighbour, the Great German Empire. The Czech people were never free, it was only led from an unfreedom of the Habsburgs into another freedom of the anti-German great powers. We regard it as expedient and also as contemporary, here the tref= fende and true court of Konrad Henlein over Benesch and his breaking activity in the life and schiksal of the Czech people again= admit: "In the year l9l8, when Benesch stood before the strong four of the victors= powers and with his finger proved on the map that Bohemia