Today, at 4:00 a.m., without presenting any claims against the Soviet Union or issuing a declaration of war, German troops have attacked our country This perfidious aggression against our country is a treachery without precedent in the history of civilized nations. "Citizens of the Soviet Union! The Soviet Government and its head, Comrade Stalin, have instructed me to make the following announcement: The decision now lies in his hands: Peace or War!" And that is guaranteed to him! We want no Czechs ! But in the same way I desire to state before the German people that with regard to the problem of the Sudeten Germans my patience is now at an end! I have made Mr Beneš an offer which is nothing but the carrying into effect of what he himself has promised. And I have further assured him that at the moment when Czechoslovakia solves her problems, that means when the Czechs have come to terms with their other minorities, and that peaceably and not through oppression, then I have no further interest in the Czech state. I have further assured him, and I repeat it here, that when this problem is solved there is for Germany no further territorial problem in Europe. I have assured him that the German people desires nothing else than peace, but I have also told him that I cannot go back behind the limits set to our patience. "I have only a few statements still to make: I am grateful to Mr Chamberlain for all his efforts.
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