THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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English Translation

193.) and revolution. I notice that most of these upheavals are caused in dictatorships and authoritarian parties to an even greater extent and that an improvement is not possible at all, except by the overthrow of the whole system. The oligarehization of the political parties raises another fundamental question for democracy: the question of theirs in democracy, so here I am going to add to what I have already said about the bigies and the tasks of the democratic politician and leader above: the modern democratic citizen takes on the authority of the freely-chosen stirrer, which he considers to be Representing his interest group or his political party and his political ideology, in which he sees him at the same time as a faithful servant of the state and of the people, who understands the interests of his group harmoniously balances with the interests and interests of the State. public questions, the political stirrer should be on his real deep knowledge and education and on the knowledge of social conditions, on his true political rght and his political talent, on the awareness of responsibility, on truthfulness, honesty and devotion to the ideal of democracy, on its moral dignity and Greatness, especially based on his personal uninterestedness and moral integrity. The leading politician-democrat is and should be to the democrat citizen just such a stirrer, as it