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Copy. 31 Hermann Raschhofer The Bohemian nobility A. The task given to me after a presentation of the Bohemian aristocracy relations, I believe that it should be understood as a question of the current political potency of the nobility and the starting point for possible corporate political participation and aspiration. The Aera Starhemberg - Dollfuss - Schuschnigg of recent Austrian history is a good example of the possibility of a deliberately coporative (though disguised) approach of the nobility in the current political life of the Czechs. Already in the Heimwehr, either members of the Austrian aristocracy or persons who were in confidential relations with him were always and systematically assigned to the determining posts of the Land and Kreisführungen. The same applies to the Patriotic Front and to the Legitimist movement completely. There is no doubt that we saw here exponents of secret organizations at work. (St. George's Brotherhood) If we ask about the possibilities of the Czech nobility, an activity should be expected above all in two directions. 1.) In the nature of intelligence service activity, it would be surprising if England in Bohemian Raun did not serve the position of Czech-oriented Bohemian nobility.England U plays today the map of counter-revolutionary world potency and collects the conservative-re-shared forces around his cause everywhere. In the case of the traditi- U gPJTe onellen, in the 19th century even strengthened relations of the Austro-Hungarian nobility to Eng-LOJLeNgOs land, the existence of such cross-links for the purpose of communication,