The Third Munich

Czechoslovakia has broken down. Yet many Czech commentators are buying, praising, and even reading Ferdinand Peroutka's classic work on the Czechoslovak state. This is unsettling. Was the break-up unavoidable after 1989? Was it a kind of natural catastrophe that could have been avoided? Or was it the result of conscious action? §1 Czechoslovakia was founded in 1918 as a renewal of the Czech state. “The Czechs have a historical right to an independent state of their own making. Moreover, they have a natural and historic right to be affiliated with Slovakia.” In 1918 the Czechs took it for granted that Slovakia would become part of their renewed state: Czechoslovakia. This founding act and the reasoning behind it contains an equivocation never clarified

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