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Today Czechs and Slovaks label the ''Munich Pact'' also as the ''Munich Dictate'' or the ''Munich Betrayal'' because the system of alliances in Central Europe guaranteed by [[France]] and [[Britain]] upon which [[Czechoslovakia]] had relied for her safety proved of no avail.  A contemporaneous voice declared:

Today Czechs and Slovaks label the ''Munich Pact'' also as the ''Munich Dictate'' or the ''Munich Betrayal'' because the system of alliances in Central Europe guaranteed by [[France]] and [[Britain]] upon which [[Czechoslovakia]] had relied for her safety proved of no avail.  A contemporaneous voice declared:

:"The mass demonstration of brokenhearted people of Prague after the surrender of Munich showed that thousands still had the will to resist, but in vain. Leaderless and betrayed, they could not stand against the Munich powers....  [That t]he western democracies have sacrificed their prestige...[was an] immediate consequence of yielding to Fascist threats of force and violence.  The only hope to offer is that in other lands there may still be men who do not tremble when Adolf Hitler cracks the whip".

:"The mass demonstration of brokenhearted people of Prague after the surrender of Munich showed that thousands still had the will to resist, but in vain. Leaderless and betrayed, they could not stand against the Munich powers....  The western democracies...sacrific[ing] their prestige...[was an] immediate consequence of yielding to Fascist threats of force and violence.  The only hope to offer is that in other lands there may still be men who do not tremble when Adolf Hitler cracks the whip".

Western European democratic leaders did not manage to stand firm against the threats of [[Fascism]], representatives of which consequently gained confidence in following their intentions openly described in the ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' as aiming at fascist mastery of Europe and eventual destruction of the world's democracies.<ref name="Munich Pact Documentary"/>{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Behind the Nazi party stands the German people, who elected [[Hitler]] after he had in his book and in his speeches made his shameful intentions clear beyond the possibility of misunderstanding."''<ref>{{cite book |title=Einstein. A life. |author=Denis Brian |publisher=J. Wiley |place=New York |year=1996 |pages=233 |isbn=9780471114598 |url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=plYcU56xENCv4QTG5YGoDg&hl=sk&id=jaXvAAAAMAAJ&dq=Brian+Einstein+A+life&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=speeches }}</ref>  

Western European democratic leaders did not manage to stand firm against the threats of [[Fascism]], representatives of which consequently gained confidence in following their intentions openly described in the ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' as aiming at fascist mastery of Europe and eventual destruction of the world's democracies.<ref name="Munich Pact Documentary"/>{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Behind the Nazi party stands the German people, who elected [[Hitler]] after he had in his book and in his speeches made his shameful intentions clear beyond the possibility of misunderstanding."''<ref>{{cite book |title=Einstein. A life. |author=Denis Brian |publisher=J. Wiley |place=New York |year=1996 |pages=233 |isbn=9780471114598 |url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=plYcU56xENCv4QTG5YGoDg&hl=sk&id=jaXvAAAAMAAJ&dq=Brian+Einstein+A+life&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=speeches }}</ref>