English Translation

After completing their studies, they had to do more in liberal professions than they could quite well, since the state service in general failed him. With this deliberately brought about development, the power of the republic also succeeded in creating itself a fairly uniform, completely Czech-minded officialship, which was without doubt useful in a nationalist relationship, unharmed to the many party shadings. They were helped by a characteristic of the Czech, which was favourable for the imposition of young Czech civil servants into the civil service. Indeed, the Czech tends to the public service for purely personal reasons, but above all because there was a time-limited way of working at that time. As a result of the previous forty-hour week, the Czech civil servant was able to prepare himself for a permanent and profitable side-effect and to expect a modest but secure living in the form of a normal pension. In addition, it was in the nature of the democratic parliamentary party state that the individual official could withdraw from the responsibility and was also relatively rarely held responsible for his work. It is well known that many Czech officials have listened not only to one but to several parties at the same time, and have always been able to legitimise themselves with the relevant par- ticipating card in the event of a change of system. For a ruling party, such as the Agrarian Party or the Benesh Party, almost every official belonged; without his connection to these sources, the official did not consider his forts secure. In addition, the construction of the Czech authorities, which had been taken over from the Austrian period and which was incompatible with the further complicity of modern statehood, has now been added. It is well known that one of the most serious obstacles to the implementation of a complete administrative reform is the fact that the responsibilities of the individual authorities have largely shifted up to the central and ministerial offices.