English Translation

- 2 - ShV. Here we will constantly feel the consequences of the more recent events so bitter that it is impossible for us to forget the bitter doctrine given to us in the twentieth year of our own state life. One of the greatest spirits of the Czech modern era, J. Pekař has clearly demonstrated the incorrectness of the thought that the spirit of Czech history, the spirit for the defense of the Czechs against the Germans, is clearly the opposite, namely that the Czech nation, with all its natural living conditions, is dependent on a good relationship with the German nation. Unfortunately, this truth of the historian remained without warning for us and the events of the previous year brought a great satisfaction for Pekař's view. Therefore, it is more necessary today than ever to include in us the lessons of Pekaře's historical conception. It is not only about the relationship with Germany, but also about the 200,000 members of the German ethnic group, who remained with us, The life of two dependent peoples cannot be the relationship between two uncivilized Indian tribes. Our common cultural heritage, but even more so our future destiny than the westernmost Slavic outpost, obliges us to refer to the relationship between the Czech people and the German people in the time of the Baroks and the Renaissance. We fully understand that the renewal of the idea of behemism for the modern Germans is incompatible with their worldview. But we are more aware of the positive results of bohemism than that of Bohemism itself, which, by and large, was built on the feudal social order. Finally, the paper explains : The findings of the leading factors of our Germans prove that they too look at their present relationship to the Czechs as a new and independent epoch and have fully understood the fact that the work of the two peoples must lead to the creation of new conditions for living together.