English Translation

23 -17 to strengthen local Czechization factors in Moravian Slovakia, and still not to follow. In recent weeks a propaganda committee of Moravian Slovakia has been set up in Ung.-Hradisch (OLB Zlin), which has the task of centralising propaganda activities in the form of an editorial and publishing committee; the committee is under constant control of the Czech-influenced public cultural service. Another Czech propaganda campaign for Moravian Slovakia with its headquarters in Ung.-Hradisch has set itself the goal of carrying out tourism and the tourist development of the Moravian-Slovak settlement area; among the main officials of this commission are almost consistently Czech intellectuals. Finally, on the occasion of the exhibition of Moravian folk art in the Prague department store "Weisser Schwan" the interest of the Czechs in the folk spe- cialization of Moravia was aroused. For months, the Czech press has been able to recognize the often uniformly controlled endeavour to raise the Czech public's awareness of issues of population policy, such as birth recession, infant mortality, increasing marriage closes, etc. NG, whose central organ "Národni listy" is leading in such essays, seems to be the starting point for this work of enlightenment. NG has also pursued population policy interests with its action "Mladi sobě" ("The boys themselves"). The fundamental question arises as to whether there can be seen in it approaches to the emergence of a Czech knowledge of the racial question. According to the ideas expressed so far in the press, this assumption is to be denied. Rather, the essays show how far the Czech public is still away from grasping the racial basis of a population policy. For the Czech reader, the call for an increase in births is based on statistical indications of a decline in birth rates, a decrease in the number of births over the years before 1 930, avoidable infant mortality, etc. The authors of these works are embarrassingly avoiding any use of the term "race" and consistently using the term 'population', under which, 200 years ago, the enlightened rulers of Europe have done a quantitative increase in their number of subjects for economic reasons.