English Translation

20 -2- Insinuation, I have read the book very hastily and just as hastyly, cannot correspond to the actual circumstances. To my person, I may tell you that, when I turn to the Supreme Reich authorities, I am able to make judgments. They will certainly not have been able to resist the impression that I have fully supported my view and that, therefore, my conclusions are clear and unambiguous. Your further insinuation, I have made the assessment completely unilaterally without knowing the historical facts, is completely erroneous, since I have expressly assumed the accuracy of the facts you have described, in order to avoid a comprehensive report. Your appeal from the ill-informed Pope to the better-educated Pope, as I have already pointed out above, is superfluous. I have been familiar with the Hus book of the Society's publishing house, which I have read, since its appearance. I only had no time to deal with this composition. As you, too, have not yet read this book, which also does not allow your time, we can talk about it in due course. I will not be able to draw any real benefit from this book as much as the other experts in the political work in the East, since for us the political significance of Jan Hus and the action he has triggered is clearly clear. In this disproportion between the "objective presentation" you have stressed and the political side of the problem, which the political experts, for example, must stress, is also one of the main points of attack against your book. As the totality of your presentation and all individual cases show, you have completely failed to take account of the political Hus problem.The core of the problem, namely the struggle of Czechism against all Germans, has found no mention at all. Furthermore, it is arduous in your view that you are confronting the whole Czech complex, which has only been marked as Bohemian by you, in its honorability, its heroism, etc., German corruption, immorality, weakness of character and the like.