SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: Well now, I suggest to you about the—your proposals and Frank’s speak for themselves. I want you to help me on one other matter.
Do you remember after the closing of the universities that the question arose, what was to happen to the students? There were about 18,000 students who were, of course, out of work because they could not...
VON NEURATH: I beg your pardon, I beg your pardon. There were not so many; there were at the most 1,800 in all.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: No, you got it—with the greatest respect either you are wrong or your office. According to the note from Group X of your office:
“According to the data at my disposal the number of students affected by the closure”—I should think that would include high schools as well—“for 3 years of the Czech universities is 18,998.
“According to the press communications, dated the 21st of this month only 1,200 persons were arrested in connection with the events of the 15th of this month.”
And then your office goes on to say by a process of subtraction that leaves 17,800. You were faced with their occupation.
My Lord, it is Page 104, Document 3858-PS. Exhibit GB-523.
VON NEURATH: I do not want to deny my official’s statement. He must have known better than I. I am merely surprised that there should have been 18,000 students in two Czech universities, in a country with a population of 7 millions.
THE PRESIDENT: Hadn’t you better check that by the original?