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Z/S language about successes of the young company. All major races, also the coup international, were then won with Laurin-Klement-Motorrädern. Later the company also started with significant success the automobile construction. Mr. Klement as well as the mentioned unfriendly also picked up a friendly letter of the company Seidel Naumann. In it the company applies for a license on motor bikes Laurin-Klement. It sounds like a fairy tale and is demonstrably true, the director of the company with which Klement closed the business in Dresden was the same gentleman who, as a former representative in Bodenbach, signed the unfriendly letter. The great-grandfather Klement did not fail to tell him the matter with humor. I have perhaps gone too far with these descriptions. But they offer more, than a dry portrayal On General, I would like to deal for a while with the mentality of the Czech people, compared with the German mentality, as we see it. A striking move is the emotional attitude, while the attitude of the Germans seems to us to be primarily intellectual. I can get proof from the field of the arts. It is probably no coincidence that the greatest, world-renowned achievements in this field come from the art that comes the most out of emotion and influences emotion. I mean the music. Our music has also found great recognition and popularity among the Germans and even in times of greatest political tension we have heard on German radio, often daily, renditions from Smetana and Dvořák. We were particularly pleased with the frequent rendication of Smetane's symphony: "My fatherland." Our folk anthem is not a defiant hymn, but an almost sentimental melody. The musical talent of the whole people is well known, as is its language talent, which perhaps, though very weak, is connected with it. The Czech language, because of its richness of form, is not easy to learn for the stranger, stands out by rich Aus- 6