English Translation

- 25 - 26 to create a conflict with the Reich, which - drawn up by the French General Staff - can almost be called a masterpiece of legislative work on military-political gestures and made possible a restless intrusion of the administration for military purposes. the possibility to politically discriminate against every Deutshen without giving reasons, to declare as a citizen of second rank and to destroy economically as a person and in his fortune. We also left this masterpiece in force - albeit in favour of the German Empire, but otherwise unchanged. Finally, the law on the creation of state municipal secretaries, whose introduction was also at the discretion of the Czech administration, was hotly contested for months in political terms. It would have offered practically the opportunity to bring every Su-detenGerman municipal government into Czech hands. When the law was finally made public with the date of February 3, 1939, it was to serve above all the accommodation of Czech officials who emigrated from the Sudeten German territory, and had been overrun in its political head by the development. It has also never been carried out. An attempted approximation to authoritarian forms of state finally brings, just before the collapse of the state under the pressure of the albpress, the already announced political blessings the constitutional empowerment law of 15 December 1938, with which the legislative power practically on the government, against. confer on the President of the Republic and authorise the President, if agreed, - 26