NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 705, sig. 110-4/556 Page 58 · 58 of 78
GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 705, sig. 110-4/556
English Translation
-6 - From now on, Italian language teaching will become compulsory at all higher schools, all universities will be given Italian chairs. Romania has been given special attention in the press for a few months, and it will probably receive even more attention than Hungary at the moment. The close Italian-Hungarian relations are well known; their care is served by numerous institutes, many books, the magazine "Corvina" and similar more. Popolo d'Italia reported with satisfaction at the beginning of April /2.IV/ that the Hungarian Fropaganda minister Ulleni-Re- viczky described Rome as the spiritual centre of Hungary. This statement certainly only characterizes Hungarian Catholicism, which, however, under Horthy in power considerably increased, but to a certain extent it also meets Kalvi- nism, who has long been seeking spiritual inspiration in Switzerland and the Netherlands in order to avoid German influence, but recently found the hegemony to Rome out of his front position against the Reich over humanistic thoughts. As with the Poles, the formula "bulwark of Latin culture" is enthusiastically used and often quoted in the Nadjars. b. The struggle for the interests of the Catholic Church has been self-evident since the Vatican's understanding with fascism. Italian diplomacy tries to take the interests of the Pope into account wherever the Vatican is not represented because of the lack of concordators and similar arrangements. Catholic leadership groups in the Czechs, Slovaks, Madjars and Croats, as well as Poles, are receiving great attention. In the Ukrainian area, the Greek-Catholic Church is clearly placed in the foreground over the numerically far more important Orthodox. c. It is clear that the "Latin" and "catholic" arguments in the East have no decisive impact. The vast majority of the total population of the area is Greek Orthodox, including the Latin Romanians ....... Fascist Italy therefore adheres to Mazzini and seeks to exploit his national-revolutionary thoughts and, above all, his statements about the so-called Slavisck Velker. It is remarkable that even the historical situation from which Hazzini wrote is still considered to be given today: lazzini - 10 -