English Translation

& () University Professor JUDr. Jan K a p r a s: "From the Homely Resistance" Until World War II, there were no preparations for a revolutive solution to the Czech question, the political conditions were anything but comfort, the poli- tical parties divided and hostile to each other, the Czech politics had for a long time not followed a big line and had since its emergence This meant, however, that even the state-law consciousness, which constituted the only correct basis of the older Czech politics, was rapidly diminishing until the formation of Czech political parties, in which state- law politics occupies either a subordinate position, as in the case of the realist party was the case - which is rejected at all (social democrats, whether autonomists or centralists). The other Czech parties (Young Czechs, Agrarians, National Socialists, Catholics and the remnants of the Old Czechs) had included the state-law provisions in their programme, but have hardly considered them to be up-to-date. Only the small and therefore not very important state-law-progressive party considered it necessary to emphasize the state-legal demands again and again, The last stage of the Czech pre-war policy, which was called that of positive politics, brought us significant, especially economic advantages, but for this reason, however, completely undermined the state's legal consciousness. When the war broke out, despite this, the anti-war mood was quite evident in our home, and the sudden change of attitude could be seen in the representatives of the pre-war politics of werdon, boi Kramář and Masaryk, who previously expected Czech-Austrian balance; of these the orste let his change of views immediately pass through, whereas the second after two visits to H•lland, Rome and the Schwoiz already remained abroad, although it was clear from the beginning that we could not make a rovolution of it, so that it was possible to