English Translation

Lektorat Moravako slezské Slovo No. 7. 15. II. 1941, p. 1: (Mähr. Ostrava) "Purge of the public life from the old party ballast". The whole Czech press went through in the past days reports, according to which there will be dureful orders, which should finally lead to a recovery of the sane public life with us. It was before all else the question of legionaries, especially those who were able to use legionnaires in a selfish way for their own benefit, to use sinecures and for the purpose of territorialization.*ln those who meant it upliftingly with our nation already felt the sustainability of such an opportunism, in which loudly was spoken of the "work for the fatherland". But this "work" was made available with gold, board of directors and high, hard-won ATMs. No one had the courage to add to these unsustainable conditions or even carry out a radical cut. Therefore, those well-known voices came, of which the meaningful voice of the Secretary of State Z. i. Frank, we have had relief in our public sphere, and we are now awaiting an early and satisfactory outcome. The solution to the Legionnaire question must come to its dissipation, will be impossible. Certainly no way will be harmed those who honestly put out their bourgeois profession, but it will be necessary to make order with those who won the legionary title in the last Kinute, but were there everywhere/right time, where some sinecure was waiting and who introduced to us conditions that harmed us then and especially OSOrC now. A second, non-important question is the