English Translation

37 Prague, 29 April 1940 I Betr.: National Community Programme. Before commenting in detail on the political scope of the various programme items, a general assessment of the content was sent forward: the programme bears the typical signs of a world-clear conglomerate, on which the intellectual influence of the former parties, which are still active in power politics today, can be observed. The intellectual authorship of the chairman of the programme commission, Dr. Stanislav B e r o u n s - k y , is particularly evident in certain parts of the program. As a student and member of the agrarian-clerical intellectual circles, Berounsky was already a convinced follower of the constitutional and socio-logical views represented in the papal encyclical "Quadragesimo anno". Thus it is to be explained that the economic part of the program highlights the state constitution as the ideal of an economic order. and that the primacy of a political Christianity is established in the cultural-political section. It is also striking that in the program one often strives for visible reference to National Socialism. There is a great deal of talk repeatedly about people's community, about the synthesis of national and social principles, and against Marxism and liberalism the front is drawn in sharpest form. The accusation made by the Vlajka leadership that the National Community has copied its programme is, in a certain sense, quite right. Some keywords are taken from the vocabulary of the Vlajka di- rekt, such as the repeated reference to "modern nationalism".