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During those 44 days the Czechoslovak Government was obliged to make steadily greater concessions to the Sudeten German Party. Lord Runciman wrote that in his opinion and "in the opinion of the more responsible Sudeten leaders" the concessions offered on September 6 as the famed Plan No. 4 could be considered virtually full acceptance of those demands which provoked the Czechoslovak crisis, namely the Karlsbad Demands made last April 24 by the Sudeten "Little Führer," Konrad Henlein...
According to the Runciman report, "Sudeten extremists" such as Führer Henlein brashly refused to go to Prague to discuss Plan No. 4, and also Henlein's additional demands, instead urged "ex-treme unconstitutional action"-i. e., Sudeten secession-so that by September 13 "the Reich had become the dominant factor in the situation; the dispute was no longer an internal one. It was not part of my function to attempt mediation between Czechoslovakia and Germany...
...hard thing to be ruled by an alien race; and I have been left with the impression that Czechoslovak rule in the Sudeten areas for the last twenty years, although not actually oppressive and certainly not 'terroristic,' has been marked by tactlessness, lack of understanding, petty intolerance and discrimination to the point where the resentment of the German population was inevitably moving to the direction of revolt...
Replied the Führer: "If formerly the behavior of the Czechoslovak Government was brutal, it can only be described during recent weeks and days as madness. ... In a few weeks the number of [Sudeten] refugees who have been driven out of [Czechoslovakia] has risen to 120,000. This situation as stated above is unbearable and will be terminated...
...Your Excellency assures me now that the principle of the transfer of the Sudeten territory to the Reich has in principle already been accepted. I regret to have to reply to Your Excellency that as regards this point the theoretical recognition of principles also has been formerly granted to us Germans. In the year 1918 the armistice was concluded on the basis of the Fourteen Points of President Wilson, which in principle were recognized by all. They, however, in practice were broken in the most shameful...