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

208.) oestrous sides of the party being here and there to be pled by the party sebstly; but again mainly from party egoism and tactics: the more ruthless a party will be in the use of power, the more rapidly the resistance of the other parties and at the same time the danger for the party itself can grow that it loses power. The principle of the majority reads only one truth, a Reoht, a decision too, The principles of the democratic majority also give the ruling party the right to almost any political measure. He therefore easily leads to intolerance, intransigence, fanaticism: a party that reaches the vast majority does not usually seek the understanding of the defeated opponent. Being intransigent, infidel and intolerant, therefore emerges from the nature of each party. The intransigence and fanaticism of the party-goers then causes the party to be absolutely unobjective in its judgment. Driven above all by the interests of the party, and in the desire to win the largest number of party supporters at all costs, it approves everything that would show that it is right, that only its strivings are riohtig, that it alone is the summit of goodness, justification and perfection. Therefore, unobjectively, she exalts and extols all that she herself does, what her partygoers do good, she hooh ingests and enlarges her, overburdens her merits and makes great