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133 which the Vatican can give to a seminary at all. Since the Reichsverband is already feeding the East of Europe with German priests, Prague is supposed to form a bridge to the separate Orthodox Eastern Churches as the headquarters of the association. It is therefore considered that the seminar on foreign priests in Prague should be accompanied by an Byzantine-Slavic seminar to be taken over by the well-known Prague Augustinian Father Alfons Maria M i t n a c h t. In a discussion between the Prague KA exponent Prof. It was expressly stressed that Rome would sanction and welcome this seminar. From this point of view, the RKA's request for support, which was skillfully presented under the national German coat, proved to be in its true ecclesial background. In Prague, one tries to establish a Catholic position, as it were, in the German run-up to the Empire, and believes that it is easier to achieve this than in the Old Kingdom, where such aspirations can find more critical observers and assessors. For the camouflage of the true KA objectives, the RKA is, as is evident from all his previous submissions, endeavoured by Völkische slogans, such as the need for a stronger influx of German theology students into Czech Prague, political harassment by Cardinal Kašpar. The RKA rightly states that a spatial improvement in favour of German-Catholic theology students and their convict must be achieved within the framework of German reconciliation measures. German and Czech theologians used to study together at the Czech and German theological faculty and together inhabited the seminary of priests in Prague-Dewitz, established by Archbishop K o r d a č.