English Translation

Cesky Delnik: 10.5.1940,No.18/19, page 1 48 "There is a need for correct knowledge". Church teaching celebrates the knowledge of the right faith during Pentecostal holidays and recalls the duty to spread the known faith among those who have not yet recognized it. And even today the great task of every person, in the confusion of events and in the raging course of history, is to seek to distinguish the light from the shadow, and not to neglect to teach even those who cannot follow the rapid course of development. We live in an eventful time in which the future of peoples and humanity is decided. The forces of the old world were not able to resist the elementary power of the new thoughts and ideals in a different way than by the inflaming of a bloodbath and by the destruction of human culture. On the one hand, the decaying capitalism of the states, which were the rulers and beneficiaries of the world order, which once confronted the peoples and human society, on the other hand, peoples who try to crush these fetters of national and human unfreedom and who want to replace capitalist abuse and exploitation with a reorganization. If thus the fronts with which capitalist greed divided the world into two camps become apparent, it is no longer necessary to think about on which side not only sympathies, but mainly active cooperation should stand. In the struggle of capitalism with socialism the choice is not difficult for the worker. The workers have enough to feel the burdens of capitalist exploitation on their shoulders to convince them that their arch-enemy is the old world, which is now presenting to the plutocratic West. It is not even the fact that he is a son of the Czech people that can turn him away from this correct realization. On the contrary, it is precisely his Czechism that only confirms and strengthens his attitude. Today the Czech people are given an old teaching; it shows how unfavorable and exploitative the so-called friendship of England and France with the Czech nation and its former state was. It may not even be necessary to recall the individual sections of this dependent "friendship" whose meaning was the sacrifice for the selfish interests of "friends".