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35 the issue of adaptation to the existing, unknown conditions for them: how to join Republican social conditions, go through a process of some kind of civilization while maintaining the principles, traditions and values characteristic of the nobility environment. Economically, the nobility continued to rely on the management of the large estates, from which membership was due to significant functions in the Union of Large Estateers as well as contacts with the agrarian party. With its large estate wing and with the urban elites, it was particularly close to its interests, life fi lozofií, hobbies, re-presentativeness. It remained as a true and new layer of the civil estate, the lifestyle and environment, and the business associated with the transformation - the out-of-town aristocracy part of the social elites of the first republic.5 Although in political life, up to a few individuals, the nobility did not play an important role, social events did not compete. With her presence she decorated the balls, participated in various diplomatic banquets, embraced in sports clubs that expressed luxury and representation, whether it was a yachting, a car club, an air club, riding unity, golf, skiing or tennis. At first the tense relations between the outgoing and incoming elite, noble and republican government, slowly freed themselves from the lost passions of the revolutionary period. Twenty-year-olds of first republic can be interpreted from the point of view of the nobility as a search for a new identity. Its national sense of the Czech feeling revealed it publicly at the moment when the Czechoslovak state was dying, and then the zno-vu on the threshold of the new world war. At that time, the nobility entered the history of Czechoslovakia for the first time and also the last time as a socio-political group. It became a form of three declarations: first in the period of the climax of the Sudeton-Mecca crisis in September 1938, two followed in January and September 1939. Their content, the circumstances of the creation, the main protagonists and signatories were discussed in more detail in this place last year during the symposium organized on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Munich agreement.6 Therefore, no one can be surprised if the state is doing its duty, in self-defense would take over forests and unreliable staff gradually replace reliable staff. Archive of the Institute of TGM (hereinafter referred to as the AÚ TGM), f. TGM, R-monarchie, k. 436, entry of 20 January 1922.5 NOVÁTEK, František: Political and Social elites, Prague 2003, p. 48.6 See HAZDRA, Zdeněk: ©Mnichovský dniy as a milestone in the relationship between the nobility and the new-time Czech society. In: HAZDR, Zdeněk © VLČEK, Lukáš (eds.): Munich 1938 and Czech Society. Proceedings from the international symposium on the 70th anniversary of Munich-