English Translation

50a is not the first time that humanity is at the crossroads of two social orders, one of which is furiously resisting its dissolution, while the other uses all its forces to achieve a total victory. - but it is the first time in the history of social upheavals that the coming order is built on completely new substantive and formal preconditions. Make sure, please, that I use the word "built up" consciously and programmatically; no other expression can show the difference between the revolution of today and the revolutions of earlier times as accurately as this short, simple word. If, in the past, the slogan was that new orders - as was said at the time - arise from the ruins of an old world and from social chaos and their own. external backdrops are revolutionary barricades, ruin and collapse, so, in contrast, our present social order is constructed and organized planfully, regardless of the war which was imposed upon it by the representatives of the old order and finally spread over the whole world. We need to be aware that there is a substantial difference between "coming out" and the planned "building up" of a new social order, and we need to keep in mind that this fact determines the course of public administration and gives inner salary to all thinking and all the work of its staff. By serving the public and the general good honestly, you will become an active factor in the present great process of construction; your commitment will then make a positive contribution to the present historical event, even if your official and personal participation in the construction of the new order will not bear a revolutionary note, and will spare all the external features of the old "revolutionary romanticism". Attscod In conclusion, the Minister stressed the fact that the staff of the Department of the Ministry of the Interior as a whole had properly grasped their function and performed the tasks that emerged from it. In the past year, significant progress has been made in the development of the Office, whether it is the approximation of legislation to the Reich or the resolution of numerous specific questions of our inner life. He thanked the employees for this work and stressed that he was also obliged to thank the Reich officials who worked at his office and made the solution of the given tasks easier by their special understanding and cooperation to the highest extent. It was precisely in the department of the Ministry of the Interior that unprecedented results were achieved in the joint work of the German and Czech officials. On behalf of the staff members, Dr. Palát, who assured the Minister and the President that all employees always want to use all their forces for the interests of the Protectorate and the Great German Empire. 4313