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

203.) and then the destruction of her work by irreconcilable opponents, as quickly as the work came into being I The dictatorship isolated in one country, in the sign of the political freedom of the other world, is a sickness.The work of the democratic leader is a time of healthy, tense work, the normal leader's ideals of the general public. xXx If one compares what I have said about democratic politics as knowledgeable and art, and what I said about the democratic political leaders, one will understand that the democratist politician and ideal statesman in my view should have all the characteristics of the true democratic leader, coupled with manoeuvring qualities that are found to such an exaggerated extent in the authoritarian Piher. He must always be something more than just a man of analysis, understanding and science. He must not be merely an educated intellectual - in the political field, even so educated typical intellectuals have often proved to be completely incapable or infertile - but he must also be a man of rapid determination, deed, courage, intuition and healthy instinct. The democratic stirrer should, in his personality, be a great intellectual culture and scientific exploration with waoher intuition and instinct. Deepness of thought with rasoher determination and sohlage