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

236.) and understood that each reserved its influence, in which the other party would not interfere. Thus pronounced domes of the d d d were transparent, and a dismemberment of the state into one-sided sectors, which were conducted without a reckless view of the whole life of the other administrative parts; this had a very demoralizing influence on the political life of a state. Another, even worse, situation arose when the veto system was introduced, tolerated or had to be tolerated in the party's coding system: as long as all parties did not agree, no solution was possible even to the most urgent question. As a result, the interests of the state suffered most, and at the time when the authoritarian regimes in post-war Europe increased, which carried out every decision through rapid dictation, this ineffective form of state administration was almost a manslayer of democracy. We know that, in some countries, this system has been quite undisturbed in the first years of war, and all the evils of the coalition system are well known, and I will not take them in detail. I am, however, far from claiming that the parties should not agree or join the government, on the contrary, it is in the nature of democracy that they must agree, but the restriction of the parties, gives the understanding a completely different character; autoisoh can it consistently