NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96 Page 227 · 227 of 272
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96
English Translation
224.) that the best institutions do very little without good people and that even less good institutions can do miracles with good people. Therefore, if it wants to renew it, post-war democracy must have better institutions, but above all, as it is used to in life, better and more mature people. Therefore, every critic and reformer of the democracy must start with the criticism and examination of himself and all that he does himself. Ioh knows that it is more convenient to hide his own mistakes, weaknesses and personal interests behind the fierce criticism of the institutions. But the one who does this and does not want to see the whole reality simply puts his head in the sand and drives Vogel Strauss politics, Masaryk has expressed all this in his well-known sentence: The crisis of democracy is above all a moral question 5.) Restricting the number of political parties as a means of restoring democracy The greater the number the political parties are in the democratic order, the more all the solitary self-sponsors of the political party system are intensifying and their consequences are perpetuating themselves. Their struggles are harsher, the number of leaders, underleaders, secretaries, trust men - the so-called party bonuses - is more extensive and party attitudes are therefore more complicated, the extent of conflicts and the numberof disputes much greater, national and state life more crumbled and the