English Translation

The Czech legionaries 5-0A force for clarification. In a well-respected lecture by the magazine Bohemia and Moravia, Secretary of State K. H. Frank, among others, states: After the establishment of the Protectorate, it should have been assumed that the Legjonärclique and its presentation would be eliminated. Although the Le- gionärsgemeinden were dissolved and their activity ceased externally, each of these creatures continued to burrow inside. The dissolution meant no weakening of their positions. Sv, as they had been able to push forward everywhere in the twenty years, they continued to do so. Still, the influential posts were occupied by the then formed "Na=rodni sourucenstvi". The legionaries built within this drganisation their own follow-up service, occupied numerous official posts in the district, district, and drts organizations and continue to work in many state and municipal posts, "as is befitted for a legionary" in leading position. That this condition is untenable. It is clear from a number of letters from the Czech population to the German authorities, which say that the majority of the Czech people would breathe up= if the dishonorable and light-shy activity of the legionaries were pushed forward and this ominous protégé was put to an end. In principle, it is clear that it is not possible to think of an honest cooperation with the Empire as long as the influence of the legionnaire on the Czech Bolks' body exists. Their excretion from public life and their separation from the creation = the verbs of the Czech bolk must not be found as a persecution of Czech patriotism. It is completely wrong, if in well-known Czech circles it is claimed that the term legion is to some extent identical "I believe," writes the Secretary of State literally, "that the anti-German and anti-social and hostile attitude of the Czech legionnaires has proved enough to establish that for us a rejection of legiononnaireship is not synonymous with a rejection or persecution of truly Czech national sentiment." This statement, which was made by the appointed German body, is intended to make clear to the Czech volt the last time what path it has to take. If called German people would often say that the National Socialism is aware of the spirit and politics of Benesch, and that fire and water cannot crowd up, it is true that the Legionåre, too, still feel like the domestic friends of Mr Benesch and his emigrant enclique, who are carefully veiled. It is, however, primarily the task of the responsible circles of the Czech people themselves to clean up in their own ranks with the spirit and the remnants of legionnairedom, because this clearing-up work is a measure of the sincerity of cooperation and the insertion into the new order.