English Translation

53 Udržal himself had to be engaged by Dr.Beneš to this step, whose audacity is almost unheard of, because the diseiplinar procedure had already been approved by the Farlament and thus raised to the law. Therefore, nothing but a new law could be used. That was clear to all. However, the Minister of National Defence, on his own initiative, simply changed the meaning of the principle of disci- plinar proceedings by a decree, on the basis of which General Gajda was again put before the Disciplinar Appeals Committee, which declared the decision of the first Discipline Committee invalid and found Ganeral GajDA guilty. In the public this news could not surprise anyone. According to the way the Mini- ster for National Defense had taken out to proceed with a law, it was clear that a second disciplinar procedure was merely a procedure, over whose result no one could be in doubt. General Gajda however appealed a c.c. to the Supreme Administrative Court. It is not uninteresting that this matter has not yet been dealt with in a period of five years and is still being dealt with. One, however, merely illusory execution, for General Gajda long ago ceased to be general, lost all his other rights, even the pension was resonated to him and he became a common convict..... But at the time when he was for the first time judged by the Disciplinar Committee and condemned by this committee, punished, ever degraded, a majority rose throughout the whole of the public. And more and more voices were loud that it was necessary to stop such a massive increase in justice and law. And these voices formally merged into the storm of elementary resistance when it became known in the public that Dr.Beneš also sought to secure the decision of the Supreme Administrative Court. At that time, the foundations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' building were shaken, and the position of this little dictator, so far, was shaken, so it seemed as if it was going to collapse. This happened for the following reason: