English Translation

31 64 committee against the acts of barbarism and requests the representatives of the science of the whole world to help him save the spiritual national inheritance. It is not the first time that the tachechoslovak civilization is in mortal danger. The *eligion wars, the frenzied invasions have interrupted them more often, but never, not even in the worst times after the White Mountain, the subjection has been as brutal and as sytematic as it is now.Never has this oppression had such a clear goal of the destruction of the entire spiritual quake of the nation as now. We hope that the common victory of the Czechoslovak nation will bring back its temporarily lost independence, but we do not want to start our life on the Friedkof all that the Czechozlovak Nation has created in the Lsuf of its more than t-usend-year-old layer, mouthed at graves of our youth. We thank the foreign intellectual world for touching all the Beveise of solidarity xktrsitekx at the moment, for one massacred and deported our students, Vir highly esteemed the manifestations of the Universitötsjugend in almost abolished all lands where freedom did not grow. V, easy these "anifestations, so the voice of foreign scholars and politicians seized the leading German circles after the Prague grievances. They have not succeeded in destroying the soul of a people in the midst of the silence of a frightened or indifferent world, We appeal to all who love the freedom of the human spirit and the progress of the sciences, so that they watch over our oppressed intellectual life and do not allow our executioners to fulfill their criminal and insane goals to the end.