English Translation

44 National Newspapers and Attention 17.I.1941. Honest words In recent days, all the Czech daily press has dealt with an important article, which under the name "Indeed in fundamental matters" published by State Secretary K. H. Frank in the January issue of the journal Böhmen und Mähren. The article explains the German position on the issue of former Czechoslovak legion- lamentations. Frank describes the emergence and development of the Czechoslovak legion and reminds of the unfortunate influence of legionaries on public life in the former Czechoslovakian Republic. Upo- points out that he has already spoken in his speech during the first manifesto of the Nazi-socialist party workers in Prague on Old Town- Bohemian Square on 2. On December 1939, he asked the Czechs to free themselves from the so-called historical myth and ideology of the former re-audience and states that the draft was not destroyed by the exceptional status of legionnaires who are the origins of this false historical mythea and this ideology to Germany hostile. It is therefore also not correct if in certain Czech circles it is said that the concept of legion is identical with the notion of Czech- him patriotism. The Czech legionnaire's idea- for which it can be regarded as an expression of escalated- him nationalism, but a Naziism misunderstood, based on hatred for German- k. The secretary of state reminds that this my-cupid came from r. 1918 The former Czechoslovak state, which had to fall apart precisely because its idea was wrong and points to the danger that the Czech nation is facing from another lasting legionism. In the article, dałe líċi, how the legionaries understood against the Czech national community, when they occupied all the higher positions in the former Czechoslovak army and took up the Czech Republic's political and economic life. After the collapse of the former Benešov republic, legionary organizations were dissolved, but their posices in the Czech public life, the halls of the legion- nářské disparate thought, remained miserable- beny. The state secretary notes that today le- geniuses are the main agents whispered by the propa- ganda, that they are in contact with the enemy's voice and cancel Czech efforts to build up the confederation with the Reich. Their removal is an essential prerequisite for the clear relationship between the Czechs and Germans. The state secretary's statements are important both for the author's personality and for their theme. It is not the first time that the legionary question becomes the subject of discussion. It may not be remembered that many of the complaints addressed by the state secretary to the legions have been heard often by the Czech party. It is well known that legionnaire nonsociality and greed- ost was already in the first years of the former Republic condemned by the famous statement of Rasi- new ©for work for the homeland is not paid. This was not the first or the last. There were also frequent objections to the untrue Liberation Legend, against the rising and still abused influence of legionnaires on our political and economic life and against the unmysterious spread of the legionan cult. However, they must appreciate the masculine sincerity of the state secretary - Ř K. H. Frank, who, as he explicitly out of theās himself, does not want to kill old wounds, but honestly points to the flaws and shortcomings of our public life, whose removal is necessary for peace in the new Reich and in the New Europe. Legionary leaders were instead of the Western plutocracy, executors of the order of the world masonry and the most effective supporters of the Jews. They were the ones who enriched themselves not only at the expense of thousands of honest members of the le-gi, but at the cost of a large nation. They kept faith in false illusions in the nation for twenty years, promised to help him by the powers, portrayed false conditions in Germany and Italy, and they are guilty of our bitter disappointment. And today, as State Secretary K. H. Frank declares, they are the main - instigators of unrest in our nation. Lik-vidation of legionism is therefore the most binding order of the time for us, all the more so because it is not a persecution of Czech patriotic thinking, but an elimination of ideology, which is a fundamental obstacle to the good coexistence of Czechs with Germans.