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- 3 - S 4 not decisively their number or their organization or their equipment. In the struggle of the legionaries decisive was the spirit and this spirit of the Legionaries milsest from our technical people, from our Czech hearts. Even if the Germans would demolish our Hradšin, if they would destroy all Prague, it would nevertheless be the cschechosl. Freedom, which became the glory of our history, lives on as a memory and dream image, and the Germans would have to stop the beating of all Czech hearts in order to eradicate them. Germans cannot destroy what even people like Rys and Mol /?/ can't destroy. Germans are unable to steal and bury what even a thief can steal. The spirit of the legionaries, that was not a spirit first conceived by the legionsaries, it was a spirit that had to be here already; a spirit which had to have been here earlier than it had been in order to create it.The spirit of legionaires is the best tradition of our political and cultural history. The spirit of the legionaries is the overcoming of the physical smallness by spiritual greatness, the spirit of overcoming the heaviness by flight, the craftyness of overcoming defiance by determination, the meekness by courage. The spirit of the legionaries is prayer and work, is elevation of thoughts to ideal...The spirit of legionaires is, not afraid, not terrified of the majority of enemies, not unfaithful to the task that has been set. The spirit of the legionaries is the work of Jirasek, the idyll of Božena Némcové, the humoresque Dvoráks, the Hradšin, the flowers behind the window... This spirit lives in us from St. Wenceslas, Her, this spirit accompanied Jan Hus to the stake and Komensky into exile. This spirit strengthened the people, he led Palacký and Havliček and he gave the people a Masaryk. This spirit led to the uprising against Habsburg, which Frank now calls treason to the monarchy. Wasn't this "treason" the back of the story, did not Hitler also betray the Oesterreicher, Austria to Germany? The German hatred of the legionaries is particularly true of the Nazi enemy Benes and it is precisely in him that the idea of the Legionaries remains pure and undisturbed. The legionaires acted in the spirit of their founder and first leader Masaryk, who declared that the legionsaries had to fight not only for the liberation from foreign domination but also internally for the release from all evils. Frank's explanation, with which Masaryk is also sent into exile, is entirely logical. He does not want a Czech people, in which also the word of the legionaries still has a place. But who in this case can have a word in the people? The exclusion of the Legionaries from the Czech. Public life is certainly not the most terrible crime of the Germans. What is it against the attack on our republic, what is it doing against the murder of the students, against the closure of universities? What is there against the destruction of our industry, against deportation of our workers, against evacuation of our peasants? But the political significance of this persecution of the legionaries lies elsewhere. The importance lies in the recognition that despite all persecution and threats, despite all flattery and seduction, the people remain true to themselves, to their past and to their future. That it cannot always be locked up in a foreign empire, that it cannot be exploited in the long term by any foreign empire; that it has not ceased to complete its freedom and its state. If the national resistance of the people would wane, the German terror would certainly not ask whom to thank and defie the fight against us continue. We do not doubt that the exclusion of legionaries is only a prelude to what is to come. We did not have a moment of autonomy and self-government, but so far at least the appearance has been preserved,