English Translation

61 - 15. - Once again he is active leader in a great political enterprise. It is the struggle for the so-called Bohemian state law, which fills out the sixties and fails with the fall of the Hohenwart cabinet. The idea of the "historical-political individualities" of Hungarian conservative ideas should also be transferred to Cisleitania. This "Bohemian state right" is the most meaningful and not the happiest legacy that grew up in the Czech national aspirations of the 19th century from the time of the nobility. If, on the one hand, it strengthened the Czech forces in an integrated way, it still distracted and that is its decisive perishable disadvantage, from the possibilities of compensating people's policies, such as those in Krems, and helped to create in the Czech CO people those illusions which led to the national state claims and illusions of the Czechoslovak Republic and which, in the first place, caused disaster. The Bohemian nobility, with its particular state-constructive thought of the position of Bohemia in the area of the monarchy, has not penetrated. But it has defied until its collapse, one can say that the decisive political pactor remained in the country, even if it has no longer appeared as such in a corporative way. Its superior position was based on three pillars: Once its powerful position at court. To the very limited circle of the high nobility, which formed the immediatly imperial society, the Bohemian nobility set a stately number. In addition, his strong position in the manor house (the first Austrian chamber) was outstanding, then his influence in the Kurien-based - 16 -