English Translation

V translation. Cover page of the magazine "Obrana národa" of 7 June 1939. All Czechs! To the invitation of Konrad Henlein for a fruitful Zusemmenerbeit Commentary on the non-conceptual speech. - Do we draw conclusions from this? As an honest netional and independent sheet, we always hold it for our most prominent duty to acknowledge the broad authority of our people with every rally of the leader and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler and all his important co-workers.We would therefore consider it a disadvantage for our own nation if it were not honestly taught about the lice and wish of these leading and leading functionaries of the Great German Empire. Today, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is an inseparable part of the Great See Empire. &The present the future and all other schikdales of our nation are insolublely connected with it. It is therefore necessary that every Czech who thinks and acts nationally gets the right insight into what the Germans want from us and what paths we should go for our better and quiet future. However, this fact does not find the right echo in our press, nor in the clientele of those responsible persons, at which we could evaluate this. We do not know whether it is mere ignorance or intention; in any case, it is to the detriment of the Czech people. Konrad Henlein is one of the most demanding and fearless leaders and fighters of the Sudeten Germans and during the former system of party democracy of the Beneß government he was presented to our people as an enemy of the Czech nation. Today, this "rigid enemy" comes to fruitful cooperation with an honest and comradely outstretched hand; to the friendly and ahrenhoften cohabitation of the techeches and interpreters on the ground of the common home;