STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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- 20 - that the Germans in Czechoslovakia have never been citizens of the oak before the World War. The borders of Czechoslovakia and the Empire were exactly the same as they had been since more than a thousand years between -se uan daee qote atn debto man pn ae half the German delegation at the peace conference in Paris in l9l9, after which it had protested against other borders laid by the Allies, did not raise any alliances against the German borders with Czechoslovakia, since this had not changed in any way the pre-war status.The border with Poland was established by the ambassador conference in Juno l9z0, The border intersected the contentious territory of Teschen, The boundary with Üngarn closed in Czechoslovakia a ripped. Number of Hungarians with one, above all in the cities, which were indivisible by districts with a purely Slovak population,Like all states, which at the peace conference were recognized or enlarged, Czechoslovakia committed itself before the League of Nations Council, that it would guarantee the equality of rights to all their respective, racial and religious minorities.The Czechoslovakia overdles in its constitution included an obligation of the same kind, the constitution guaranteed to the national minorities the same civil and political rights, freedom of language in private commercial matters, in religious life, in the press and in public gatherings, as well as the equality between rights in spiritual life and the educational system. The electoral law, which was ratified at the same time as the Constitution, confirmed this equality in practice by creating - as we have already seen above - the same and general right to vote according to the principle of subsidiarity.