English Translation

National Community and Vlajka. I have had the opportunity to draw attention to the urgent need to clarify relations in the internal political life of the Czech people. In doing so, I had, as I have repeatedly said, in the sense that we should not allow ourselves to cooperate with extreme Czech elements from the German side. I have already pointed out on several occasions that these people are almost without exception morally impeccable, that they have no hold on in the Czech people and cannot hope in terms of their past, as well as in the manner in which they appear, that it will be possible for them to somehow gain a foothold in the people. The time has come for me to make a final decision on this matter, and I believe that it is not up to the national community to accuse it of not guiding the Czech people politically as the interests of the Great German Empire are concerned. The events of the last few months have shown that the leading officials of the national community are right in their view of my actions and that they are fully guided by them. Through their organizational apparatus, they exert a significant influence on the attitude and behaviour of the Czech people, and I do not doubt that the change which is gradually coming to light in Czech peoples is due to the merit of the national community.