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especially in the towns, and nearly all of whom registered German
as their language in common use. The German Government,
however, has excluded the Jews from the German racial community,
and the German character of the occupied areas cannot
therefore be gauged by including the Jewish population among
the Germans. As a result of this criterion, too, the figures relating
to Gennans included a very large number of Czechs who were
therefore compelled to use the German language in their dealings
with them.
For these reasons therefore the only reliable basis for the purpose
at issue is the census according to nationality which was carried out
in 1921 and 1930.
It may here be pointed out, however, that the German occupation
included a number of districts and communes which were
preponderantly Czech even according to the 1910 figures. Thus for
example (Table 3):
Hodonin 87.0g0/o Czechs 12.83OIo Germans
Bilovec 67.28O/o " 31.80°/o "
HluEin 80.51°/o " 14.27O10 "
The new frontiers thus infringe the Munich Agreement in an
ethnographical respect, and actually go beyond the demands of the
Godesberg Memorandum which Mr. Chamberlain declared to be
unacceptable. A comparison of the Godesberg line of demarcation
with the present one established at Berlin shows that the "unaccept-
able" G0desber.g Memorandum did not include, for example,
Moravskf Krumlov an'd KopEvnice in the area for German occu-
pation.
(4) Hence, for ethnographical reasons alone a rectification of
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the frontiers which, I assume, were provisionally established, is fully
justified by the terms of the Munich Agreement, the signatories of
which are juridically entitled to carry out this rectification and,
moreover, are in a position to do so.
(5) The new frontiers, however, do not infringe merely the
ethnographical principle which is expressly mentioned in the Munich
Agreement, but they run counter also to the principle of the eco-
nomic viability of the Czechoslovak Republic which is assumed and
respected by the Munich Agreement. It should here be pointed out