GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 738, sig. 110-5/27

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97 -15- This whole development caused the slnelle fertgang of events in 1918.' It began with the General Assembly of Czech MPs on the Three King's Day 1918; to which Czernin's declaration that the nationality of those national groups which have no state independence cannot be endorsed by means of reductions of internal character (25. The declaration itself, the most important of which is the publication by the German author Dr. Dr. Rašins, thanks to the linflux of catholic ab- gcordneters, joined the rallies that had previously been made, in particular the declaration of 30.5. Here, however, the Austrian state federation found no mention of mohr. In the Declaration, the nation demanded its independence and relied on its historical state law, it was permeated by the fervent longing, in free Wet:bowerb with other free peoples and in its own sovereign, full-law, dono-cratic, social justice, directed at the equality of all citizens of the state and placed within the limits of its historical countries and the seats of its Slavic twin-go states to contribute to the imminent great renewal of humanity - based on freedom and fraternity - and in these states to ensure that national minorities have their full national rights. In this one sentence, the declaration actually concentrated all Czech demands and at the same time committed itself to all the principles that the Entente had published during the war as its aims. The declaration was unanimously announced, Nur Šneral did not participate in it and did not subdue this declaration, The rally was initially pressed down by dic Zonsur, but then, on January 30th, released to pressure. At the end of January, German delegations from Bohemia, through a special manifesto, demanded the formation of an independent territory called "Peutschböhmen", from the German-speaking districts of Bohemia, that they never allow these biotic toiles to become a Chechnya state,