"Taking into consideration the Czech attitude of May 28, I decided upon very grave measures, Firstly, the announced measures for the strengthening of army and air force were at my command immediately extended to an extraordinary decree and straightaway put into force. Secondly, I ordered the immediate construction of fortifications in the west, I am able to assure you that since May 28, the most gigantic system of fortifications of all times is in the process of erection in that quarter, In all, upwards of 360,000 workers as well as 100,000 members of the Labour Service Corps, several battalions of pioneers and a few infantry divisions are engaged on the German fortifications in the west which have been for two years already in the process of construction. Nearly 8,00 railway trucks of material are being transported daily to that region while the total daily consumption of gravel amounts to upwards of 100,000 tons, "Germany's fortifications in the west will be completed before the coming of the winter, Their defensive power is already fully guaranteed, Upon their completion, they will comprise in all upwards of 17,000 gun bases, And behind them stands the entire German people in arms, I have made this most tremendous effort of all timer in the service of peace, N
Czechs Must Settle With Sudetens "Under no circumstances, however, am I prepared to continue calmly looking on at any further suppression of German compatriots in Czechoslovakia. Dr. Benes is engaging in tactics. He talks and seeks to organize negotiations on the Geneva pattern. But that won't do in the long run. It is here not a question of empty phrases but of the right of Germans, a question of the right to self-determination possessed by every other people. Dr. Benes is not
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