become a part of Czecho-Slovakia, put would keep a very autonomous
status. It 18 hoped that with the friends Czecho-Slovakia van still
muster in America, such a solution would find friendly response
in the U,ited States.
" 4 / In the meantime, and in the hope that this necessity
would never arise, the Sorb Movement was a very welcome weapon to
keep the G rm an Communists in line.
8 / From the Czech point of view, discussions about Zitau
Zittau basin would be opened at some future opportune date with
Moscow.
So far the Czech memorandum, written on August 26th, 1952
and marked secret. It certainly reveals another most important move
of Soviet policy in the rea&stions between the Spatellibes and the
Moscow masters.