English Translation

- 24 - S2 signed for the new state, which did not, of course, prevent him from denying the authenticity of the document. SudetenGerman and Slovak demands for autonomy, these were the two neuralgic points of Czech domestic politics at all. Over them also the law of the Gauge fell and was poured into the law on the reorganization of the political administration. It sows the Slo. the disparity of a purely administrative autonomy, which hardly differed from the simple fixing of an own administrative unit, as it represented Bohemia and Moravia. For the Sudeten Germans, on the other hand, it brought the first strong Czech collapse into the self-management of its territories by leaving the former district and state representatives, and in the future only 2/3 were elected, but 1/3 were appointed by the government. The previously elected district chairman was also removed and, in his place, the district captain was entrusted with the chairmanship of the district division. The purpose of this measure was clear Czechization, in order to bring into these bodies Czech 'majorities', but at least the Czech regime-like Germans, under non-recognition of the population key. Another politically significant measure f was the introduction of the Czech state police in most Sudeten German places instead of the formerly predominantly German municipal police.By a government decree with legal force in 1936 was already under the Aus- pizien of the czech grandstand and the coming conflict - 25 -