English Translation

23 52 We can draw valuable suggestions from the study of the regulation at that time - but no more either. A long-overtaken development can be turned back in the administration just as little as the wheel of history itself. The following development since the collapse of Austria only needs to be dealt with briefly. A really creative or fundamental reshaping of the wift administration took place kade more. The time of the independent Czech state has carried out only few changes in the basic principles of the Austrian administration, almost exclusively due to political conditions. Just in 1920, however, a profound change was planned and already announced as a law, but its entry into force was a government ontooqdorrradr (It provided for the division of Bohemia into 9 and Moravian into 5 Gaue under dissolution of the countries. It failed for political reasons and was never put into effect. It would not have been possible to avoid the creation of two purely German-populated streets in Karlovy Vary and Böhmisch Leipa, which were considered to be administrative cpistallisation points. The Slovaks, too, were against the law and were pouncing on the autonomy which they were contractually assured. Masaryk had the Slovaks during the Austrian disintegration process with the promise of full autonomy in the so-called Pittsburger Treaty with his own signature -24 -