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41 Richard Bienert F. Sadeck S O kroniky, je vel-ní, ž je vzděl, která vla. Di-ečné a la pr- subky. -TC Politics, Prague, Snimek: Ant, Eis, I think I can say this: It has rarely aroused the appointment of a new prime minister in our nation as much attention as on January 19th, why? The name of Richard Bienert is not unknown to us. I mean, there's no one who doesn't know him in connection with the office of the police president in Prague. It was the name of the post- popularity. The sources of that popularity come out of the way in which he was entrusted to him by the office. The Prague Police President proceeded through the President of the Czech Republic to the chair of the Minister of the Interior to the place of the pre-sedation of the government. His talent, solidified by administrative and yniri experience, was pre-determined for these functions. The basic elements of this talert were in a way higher than the order of the police-policeman. Bienert has another feature: Although connected to the field- tic erudica in the aim of exceptional, he did not show a tendency to believe in politics. However, it was also unknown in the consecrated circles of Prague that Bienert did not become Minister of the Interior behind the Republic only because he did not have a parliamentary mandate, nor - the legitimacy of a political party that would enforce him to this point in at least one of the so-called Cabinets of Officials. The experts then strongly felt the odds of this fact, the challengers of re-politising our public life- those whose task was to uncover a man whose undisputed abilities for the interior minister's chair remained untapped in this way to the detriment of the whole, explained the sad fact that only 60-year-old Bienert became the minister of the interior, however, must be sought in another way: his nature. He is certainly kind. However, the circle of his companions and friends of the day's life has always been a normal civil half-measure disproportionate to his popularity about the number of people he met in the performance of his offices, do not speak of theē! and among those he associated with friendly regularity were politicians in a minority. Priest, academic painter, university professor, doctor, inže-nár, architect, clerk, journalist: it was about the social types that were seen in the narrow, practical meetings around him. It was discussed after- (Continued on page 2.)