English Translation

10 Evening Czech Word 13.I.1941. On the legionary question. Reply to the article of the state secretary K.H.Frank. Press on the fundamental position on the le-gionist question in Czech life. From the response of the article by the State Secretary K. H. Frank on the legionsary question, we have some votes: DER NEUE TAG: We have too much respect for the true national sentiment of the Czechs than to share it with the Legionary spirit. If nationalism is to make any sense, then basically it can only be that the nation's efforts and efforts benefit its nation. Whoever chooses the hunt against the Reich as their main goal must know that it can harm his nation. It must be a self-enforced non-teachership or conscious deception if I play such people as patriots: the case of a classic great patriot" Beneš may have made it clear. PEOPLE NEWS: We believe that from state mysterious. ka K. H. Frank can be deduced that his completely negative position does not affect all former legionnaires individually without exception, for the edge of these leaders, unless they take on the essential things of the historical nature, but the act. The litums and problems of the present, is mainly prosecuted by the legonary component, which is blamed in addition to the unlearnedness and deliberately anti-German- him opinion especially of her sociality. Thus, this category certainly does not include the numerous former le-ginners who, after the world war, returned to their former civic occupations, to pl. hum, to craft and factory workshops, and never made extraordinary demands or had political ambitions, devoted again only to their work and modest destiny. VENKOV: In the Czech nation there was long ago dissatisfaction with the priority rights and the prominence of the ladies who received the legionnaires, especially those who were willing to perform Dr. Beneš's wishes. A large part of the legions who actually called their slogans and returned to their homeland did not make our year of special rewards and privileged status. They did what they thought was right at the time and went back to their former calling. They had in mind the Siova, which later told me - Nister Dr. Rašín: "The work for the country is not paid! © The Czech farmers who were members of the legions went to their plow and lumps, unexpectedly and not asking for any reward, nor did they claim priority status. The majority of them disagreed with the "deology" applied by the management of the former COL, and that is why it was created and against it arose from a fragile thunder, which was a thorn in the eyes of the following Benešs, In the agricultural circles also the sober view of the nā new reality, which occurred after the major coups in the le-tech 1938 and 1939 in the Czech Moravian space was first expressed. They realized that Bohemia and Moravia had returned to the framework of the German Empire not only economically but also politically and spiritually, and that within this framework there was no place for what was very often referred to as a legionary of these circles. These privileges, not in the field, but in the battlefield, are now to be removed. State Secretary K. H. Frank refers to legionnaire careerists who have seized their positions by virtue of the legendary conjunk-tura, as an obstacle to understanding between the Czech and German people. Such obstacles are necessary and most effective to remove them as quickly as possible, even though many people cling to them either way. But the Czech people always had a highly developed sense of justice, and they had it even then, when they were already twenty years ago being ironised by their enthusiasts by the parody of the famous sentimental song: "From your blood, the red one will stand here one day, the palace of the Bank of Legion."