English Translation

97 THE STATISTICAL PRESIDENT OF THE PROTECTORATE BÖHMEN AND MOURN - 2 - had fascist group whose foremost functionaries have been active from the very beginning in the Czech united party. Other serious opposition groups of the former political life do not exist at all. In particular, there was no group that would have had a clear program of cooperation with the rich from earlier times. Hereby I can refer to a treatise of the newspaper "Die Zeit" published just these days /30.8.1940/, in which it is again stated that in the twenty years of Czech state independence no Czech group has had so much courage and foresight to represent and defend the program and politics of friendship with the Germans. I add that this very programme of cooperation with the Germans was missing above all from the group "Vlajka", which, on the contrary, was known in public life at that time as a re-presentant of radical Czech chauvinism and which, for example, has waged a sharp struggle against all German aspirations, as always, in the question of the universal insignia. So as far as the relationship with the empire is concerned, it cannot be claimed that the block "Vlajka" its innovation