English Translation

62 transcript Ü b e r d e t z u n g No. 17 Prague, 23 July 1942. Main correspondence of the movement ČNST-Vlajka (Czech National Socialist Camp - Vlajka) Published and directed: VKHv. comrades! Just as there are joyful periods in which I can tell you pleasant things, so it is also my duty to tell you unpleasant things. This includes the recent attitude of the magazine "Vlajka". Among the characteristics of the Czech nationalist must also be the ability to tell the truth and the courage to listen to the truth. And really, today's unpleasant truth about the setting of the magazine "Vlajka" does not have to be the last and unpleasant thing that I will be forced to tell you sooner or later. Today's phenomena in the development of Czech affairs must be regarded as historical necessities. I say this without wishing to reassure anyone or to seek an excuse for leading the movement, because the most disastrous of this happening or its reasons lie very far from the effect on the movement. But just as the time-writing "Vlajka", as well as the leadership and members of the movement, can look forward with the calmest conscience to the inextricable development of the present events and be aware that they have not deviated in the least from the line drawn by personal honor, just as little, as from movement, nation and empire. In this context, of course, it must not be a dull