STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2318, sig. 109-11/120 Page 57 · 57 of 76
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2318, sig. 109-11/120
English Translation
49-4a! "I would consider that much more useful and satisfying than to say, 'Well, we must go with you!', but to make reservations in the lettish, deepest fold of your heart. You have to decide on this and also the Czech people must decide. Don't say that the Czech nation wants one way or another. I think I can take some experience for myself in the field of popular leadership. A people thinks as their intellectual class teaches them to think; it always has the ideas that his spiritual leadership is. Shouldn't your spiritual leadership come seriously before the Czech people and make it clear to them that it has to decide now? Shouldn't she tell him that this Czech people might have chosen the best part after all? - You have seen Rotterdam; just you can guess the historical decision of your President at that time in its full value. No one should say: "Yes, you could have avoided it at all! "Our actions do not spring from a whim. We, too, are merely servants of a historical destiny; we cannot do anything other than do it. We are only the executors and executor of a historic mission.