English Translation

1:9 Lektoret Moravsko slezské Slovo No. 7, 15. II. 1941, p. 1: (Mähz. Ostrava) "Purge of the public life from the old party ballast". The whole Czech press in the past days went through reports, according to which it will come to thorough dispositions, t ta ds sae S de d a us to lead. This was above all the question of the 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.All those who meant it upliftingly with our nation felt already long ago the untenability of such opportunism, in which loudly was spoken of the "work for the fatherland". But this "work" was presented with gold, board of directors and high, hard-honored Aemtern paid. No one had the courage to point out these unsustainable conditions or even carry out a Fadical cut. Therefore, those well-known voices came, of which especially the meaningful voice of the State Secretary Z. H. 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 sus- sive it, will be impossible. Certainly, those who honestly pursue their civic profession will not be harmed, but it will be necessary to maintain order with those who won the legionnaire title at the last minute, but who were there at the right time everywhere, where some sinecure was pre-haric and who introduced to us conditions that harmed us then and especially now. Mine second, no less significant question is the