Note 17 — Chapter II · TOWARD A UNITARY STATE

In reality the states still exchange ambassadors and, in the official German language, the agreements reached either between two states or several carry the name of Staatsverträge (international treaties). See particularly the international treaty adopted between the Reich on the one hand, and Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, Baden, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Oldenburg on the other, concerning the transfer to the Reich of the railroads of these states, the treaty approved by the National Assembly, April 30, 1920.