English Translation

Vo Haatspas, Hachy an k Reirlesperotehtr 1h,{6-81.mgsl2gn I come to Your Excellency to once again direct your attention to some matters in which I have repeatedly addressed you before. I know that I will again find understanding and opposition with you this time. It is not easy for me to use your Excellency with the same complaints and concerns over and over again, but my situation, which is becoming more and more difficult in the light of the development of circumstances, compels me to do so. It's not my person - it's a secondary matter - it is the trust that I still enjoy with my people today and that, after not least, the kingdom has an interest in maintaining it. One of the prerequisites of our people's undisturbed work within the framework of the Great German Empire is the awareness that if the Czech people sacrifice in the interests of warfare, their national and cultural lives will not be affected. As long as it is convinced that I can guarantee this to him, it considers my position as head of the people to be justified. In the opposite case, my influence must disappear and thus also the possibility of asserting it in the interest of a fair cooperation with the rich as before. Wide circles of the population are ready and able to take great sacrifices for the whole if they have the power to produce things that are really inevitable. They patiently endure a whole series of such sacrifices that the war makes necessary,