English Translation

260.) Parties and the press - a decisive share. In most European states, the modern bureaucracy is the immediate continuation of the old feudal and monarchist bureaucracy, in a number of Stgaten until recently the leading class of state bureaucracy was still aristocratic, so that even in the time of liberal parliamentarism and in the first time of the democratic regime the state bureaucracy lived regularly in the traditions of the government order of the Regine from the pre-denocratic times. All the democracies of our time had and have so much sophistication with the bureaucracy. In democracy, above all, the bureaucracy is supposed to be truly democratic. By this I do not only mean that any official who wants to serve the democratic state is a convinced, devoted, inspired and sincere, educated democrat, understand his democratic task and appreciate the history and development of the deno-cracy, but that he should guard above all against three main sins of the modern birocracy: a) From what we call the brilliance spirit. The English have a proper technical term for the bureaucracy: ovil service - public civil service The beante is not and should not be a master, but a devoted servant of the public. Whoever cannot do this has no place in the state apparatus. He is there for the citizen, not the citizen for him. He is supposed to defend the state and the public good, but he is neither