STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1743, sig. 109-4/1498 Page 33 · 33 of 71
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1743, sig. 109-4/1498
English Translation
-4-29 and Moravia with its strong fringe mountains are the ideal basis for marching against the empire, was the most tragic hour of the Bohemian tales. For at that time Eduard Benesch sold the new state to a consortium of powers for which Czechoslovakia was only entitled to exist until it was ready to serve its power-political ab=sights. At that time he admitted to his people a task which was so long wearhar when Germany was impotent and which began to lead to systematic self-destruction at the time when Germany had found its new strength. Even if it may have seemed to Benesch that the new Germany was not capable of a world-political settlement, one thing had to be clear to him: that his state and his own people were in the event of an armed conflict, either in one way or another, or that they were not in complete disbelief." This was the darkness and the maze of the tragic situation in which Benesch led us and the party system which was devotly serviceable to him. We were incited against an enormous power of resistance and enmity, which we were always too weak and weak to resist. We would not come out of the misguided ways of our past, nor would we work until our self-destruction, even if we still wanted to lend the ear to the counsels and seductions of those who have betrayed us coldly, ruthlessly and cynically when they realized that they cannot fulfil their covenant obligations against Germany. Our people must learn diligently from their own history and find the courage in themselves to draw the full consensus for the life of the nation and each individual. It is no longer true that the life law of the Czech nation lies in an eternal struggle against all Germans! That is precisely what led us away from the ground and from the facts. We hunt for never achievable phantoms, dine every unrealizable illusion and imagination, always seek some unexistent and immaginary truth and flee from the sober facts. A radical turn in all areas of our mental and political life is necessary. It must be warned against dreamers who want to prevent the Czech people from dislocating themselves from the mysticism of the ancient resistance against the natural laws and the German people.