English Translation

52 &( It had not yet been a quarter of a year since Gegeral Gajda sat in this room, as an absolute master of the fate of the Czech army. And in this same room he was now judged against the most serious of all crimes a soldier can commit against his army and his state. - But not enough about it. - It was in exactly the same space where General Gajda last revised the new court of honour of the Czechoslovak army before its law-making and in which he carried out extremely sweeping changes on his own initiative in the sense that the question of condemnation of the guilty would be left more in the hands of the military administration than in those of the Disciplinar Committee itself. At that time, therefore, the objections of those officers who wished to grant greater independence to the disciplinaries were in vain, thus ensuring a greater possibility for just decisions. General Gajda insisted at that time that it was necessary to subordinate the interests of the military administration itself to justice, if it were not in the left-hand direction with the interests, perhaps, of military administration. And, look, he himself became the first victim of this solution. As if the arm of justice wanted to famit document that no one should intervene unpunished in the history of the inviolable rights. And for several days he sat in this room on the dock and heard the witnesses testifying to his face things that he didn't even have a clue about, and of which perhaps all those who took this testimony knew that they weren't entirely credible. But although the Court of Honour had already adapted to the reforms proposed by General Gajia, namely that the one whose conviction was deemed necessary by the military administration was judged, even though these witnesses did not allow General Gajda to be convicted. Hes Diseiplinar's General Gajda was completely free from the charge, as there was no reason to assume that he would have committed dishonorable or unallowed acts in any sense. However, this was a great sight for Dr. Beneš. He therefore put all the levers in motion, so that this report, which not only threatens his move but also his political position, and at any price, is annulled. It had to necessarily be submitted to the corresponding opinion: The Minfßter für Nationaldefensey ./.