English Translation

96 - 2 - he became 2nd deputy of the committee chairman and was a member of various commissions of the NG. Strachwitz is the type of conservative nobleman, his ties to the Catholic Church, are known. Strahwitz was formerly a supporter of the Czech clerical People's Party, his brother is in a Franciscan monastery in the Eastern Mark. Despite his German descent, the inner attitude of Strachwitz towards Germanism is negative: the declaration of loyalty of the Bohemian Moravian nobility to Benesch in the September crisis in 1938 was also signed by him. In June 1940, he also lost his position on the occasion of the dissolution of the function of all NG-members, but was reinstated in August 1940. He retired months ago and has since remained politically more in the background. Soon after the departure of Strachwitz, however, the political nobility succeeded again in bringing in the person B e l c r e d i s an ezponent in the NG- Aussehuss and in creating a leading and influential position there. Karl Graf Beleredi aüs Brünn, also a signatory of the loyalty rally for Benesch i.J. 1938, shows a feudal-clerical attitude. His political conviction demands a state solution of the countries of the former Bohemian crown in the sense of the House of Habsburg. As a significant representative of a family of aristocrats, a monarchic colour is also evident in him. His name also appears, like that of Count Strachvitz, repeatedly in connection with the Habsburg noble group "Kaisertreu". His personal attitude towards Germanism is marked by the following incident: when he was asked at the time to confess to German doing, he refused to do so by pointing out that his family had been Czech for centuries and that his ancestors had been outstandingly active in the Czech-Clerical sense.