CEPT, AND SINCE THEY WERE NOT STRONG ENOUGH IN MILITARY OR
ECONOMIC TERMS TO MAINTAIN THE INDEPENDENCE OF THEIR INTERNATIONAL
POSITION IN THESE RESPECTS.  POLITICAL INTERFERENCE FROM OUTSIDE
WOULD BE EXCLUDED FROM THIS GERMAN SPHERE OF INFLUENCE.  THESE
CONDITIONS ALREADY PREVAILED IN SLOVAKIA-- WERE BEING DEVELOPED
DEVELOPED AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE IN BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA. AND WOULD
BE INTRODUCED INTO POLAND.  TURNING TO ECONOMIC QUESTIONS.  THE
FIELD MARSHALL DISCUSSED THE MOST FAVORED NATION PRINCIPLE- WHICH
WAS GERMANY'S BASIC GUIDING PRINCIPLE IN ALL THE COMMERCIAL
TREATIES SHE WAS MAKING.  THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GERMAN
AND AMERICAN VIEWS OF THIS PRINCIPLE LAY IN THE RESPECTIVE THEORIES
ON THIS MATTER IN ACTUAL PRACTICE.  GERMANY WAS REQUIRED BY THE
NECESSITIES OF THE SITUATION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES WITH WHICH SHE
NEGOTIATED TRADE AGREEMENTS, TO ESTABLISH SOME QUALIFICATIONS AND
DEVIATIONS FROM THE THEORETICAL PRINICIPLE - JUST AS AMERICA IN
CERTAIN CASES MADE EXCEPTIONS AND SPECIAL PROVISIONS.  THE
QUALIFICATIONS ESTABLISHED BY GERMANY COULD ALSO BE