English Translation

256.) and thus the weakness of the government authoritet, even finally leads to the demise of the whole. It is, after all, a law of every foreign and military policy to seek, above all, all its centrifugal and decomposing factors and components, to use them, to increase, to support and in this way to dismantle the state from within, before it is placed by outside the sohlag. The decentralization or autonomousization of the state so humbly tends to be the first goal of the opponents of the State and then the means of its destruction. In our czech-choslovaki case, this has been expressed in Germany's thousand-year endeavour to destroy the unity of Bohemia and Moravia and in the millennial endeavour of the Germans and the Magyars to allow the unification of the yPNLy Slovakia with the Bohemian cattle. What happened in the Republic in 1938/39 on the part of these two states - unfortunately with the help of the Beck' sohen Poland and some of our retaliatory German and Slovak factors - is the best proof for our whole people and our whole future of what should be done and not what we have come to do and cannot and must not do. On the other hand, it is in the nature and interest of democracy that centralisation is not exaggerated. Close centralization is the first and main condition of any dictatorship; democracy, against its greatest force, draws from the moral consciousness and the free conviction of the citizens that they belong to it.