English Translation

237.) Implementation of the veto system is impossible and will at all eliminate the state of the almost permanent crisis, in which the large number of parties, on the one hand, is in debt to the too great slowness of the state administration; on the other hand, the instability of every parliamentary majority, the absolute dependence of the government on an even small political party and thus the ineffectiveness of the executive power in general. The restriction of the number of parties would, after all, also help to reduce the sohiccal evil of the decadent parliamentary regime of pre-war democracy, which imagined the weakness of the executive power. The prudent change of government and thus the impossibility of systematic governmental and administrative activity is a regime that is unstable, not permanent and unstable, therefore ineffective and inactive, which prepares itself every day for its overthrow. Let us compare, for example, the French pre-war parliamentary regime with the regime in Great Britain or the United States of America. - I am concerned about these few reasons and proofs, from which I derive the necessity of unconditional restriction of the number of political parties in the post-war democracy, I would like to wish that the Czechoslovak post-War democracy takes these reasons into its own and ruthlessly pulls the flags out of it for its post- war party system. It will, to a large extent, facilitate the structural socio-economic changes which I have mentioned above and which have led to the