The Czech Minister of the Interior explained a few days after the opening of the Sudeten German bureau that the applicants had circumvented the basic requirements of Czech law. The Interior Ministry would not therefore provide the necessary permission.

The Social Democrat Member of Parliament Robert Kopecky comes from Northern Bohemia, a district on which the Sudeten Germans have made demands. He announced that this year's anniversary of liberation from the Nazi regime could be the occasion of mass demonstrations against the very real provocations of the Sudeten Germans.

Berlin gives the Sudeten German League a free hand. ,,They are a non governmental organisation" explained the spokeswoman for the German embassy in Prague. ,,They can do what they like". For years Sudeten German organisations have been fostered by state funding. The government of Bavaria (,,Freistaat Bayern") became the ,,godfather" of Sudeten Germans in 1954. The German embassy in Prague dignified the opening festivities of the Sudeten German Bureau by the attendace of an official delegation.

Thus Berlin follows the provocative game plan of the ,,expellees"' officials. Bernd Posselt, Chairman of the Sudeten German League, has already suggested for several years that territorial districts of the Czech Republic should be placed directly or indirectly under German sovereignty.

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