Thus. negotiations and overtures of friendship by the Brandt coalition government with the government in Prague do not constitute negotiations or friendship with the Czech and Slovak peoples. but rather with a puppet government which the people in Prague know full well is controlled by the Soviets. and who furthermore consider it to be de facto occupation by the Soviet Union. The free Czechs and Slovaks living in the West have rejected the idea that Western governments should seek cooperation with and give economic aid to the regime in Prague. thereby bolstering its hold over its unwilling subjects. The Sudeten German people. who were deported from their 800yearold homeland in Czechoslovakia in 1945 under Communist initiative and leadership. are now being told by the Communist regime in Prague that the Munich agreement under which they and their homeland were transferred in 1938 to Germany should be declared "invalid from its very beginning." The Sudeten Germans do not deny that the Munich agreement was concluded under threat of force. and they readily admit that it is no longer valid. having been violated by Hitler himself in 1939. however. they do object to the recent claim by the Prague government that the Munich agreement was never valid. Elected representatives of the Sudeten Germans point out that the Sudeten Germans were not a party to the agreement at Munich. but agree that it was sanctioned under international law by representatives of the Governments of Germany. Great Britain.
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