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

The party of the so-called Left and the Sogennate Reohten, possibly a party of center. 1) All other political ideas, ideas, convictions and programmes (national, decentralized, religious and other problems) should be concentrated in these two or three parties. In its context, citizens who have an interest in these issues should have the full freedom of belief in the propaganda of enforcing and defending their particular objectives, interests and programmes, and even more so as the possibility of free associations and societies, clubs, leagues, etc. with the freedom of the word, the press and propaganda for the various views in the democratic society would continue. The principle of conservatism or progress can be regarded as a fundamental principle of party-making for two main reasons: a) Each society always automatically and structurally divides itself into those who want to change the previous order and those who wish to preserve it - whether for these or those reasons. (b) The human nature itself has the tendency - whether innate or caused by education - either to innovate or to adhere to all the old, traditional, 1) Here use the running political terminology. Of course, the parties can freely give themselves their own names. It would only be a matter of subjecting themselves to the party-creative principle permitted by the Constitution.