The Archive · 1938

Right of Option

^7. The right of option shall be pro-Wided for those, desiring to move into the ceded territory and for those desiring to leave the same. This right of option must be exercised within a period of six months from the date of the conclusion of this agreement. The German-Czech commission. shall determine the details of this option and shall consider the procedure to be adopted for facilitate ing this exchange of the population and to clarify the fundamental questions arising out of this exchange.

8. The Czechoslovak Government shall within a term of four weeks from the day of the conclusion of this agreement discharge from its military end police formations all Sudeten Germans who desire this discharge. Within the same period the Czechoslovak Government shall release all Sudeten German prisoners who have been deprived of their liberty on account of political, offences, Supplementary declaration: The heads óf the governments of the four Powers declare that the problem of the Polish and Hungarian minorities án Czechoslovakia shall become insofa- as it is not settled within three months by agreement quire Be discussed at a further meeting of governments concerned, a matter

the heads of the governments of the four Powers here assembled.

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