English Translation

- 4 .- You may see from it the importance for the journalists of the commonality of the struggle, and dicce statement may be particularly valuable and important here in the beautiful clubhouse of the Union genz. They also see, however, that there is a wide gap from this beginning, even five years ago, from the democratic press of the Republic to this hour, since Czech journalism, by virtue of its performance and attitude, can go out before Europe with words that are justified by sacrifice and attitude.' It is not just the words of the Czech journalists, from which we see this, because these words from the press reflect what political wall the whole Czech people have been through during this time. This change has put this Vclk into a political state, far removed from the dreams of our enemies, and this political state must be known in order to honour the work of Czech journalism, which helped to bring about this end and to work in this state today. I would therefore like to try to give you a broad picture of this process of political activity over the last five years and then give you an idea of the state of affairs in Bohemia and Mänren today. From the outside, the course of the events in Bohemia and Moravia is very often quite confusing and contradictory, because the outsider only gets to know the different events directly and against each other. On the one hand, he has heard of demonstrations, of strep and atonement, and on the other, he hears that there is a great deal of positive evidence that the Czechs have become aware of the Empire and Beneš in mass upheavals. I would like to say that this contradiction, which emerges from the outside, is essentially a more apparent one, because the actual political linic means a clear and straightforward veg for the broad fairs of the Czech people. We must think back to the year l938, when a sudden awakening took place from Munich, a sudden wake-up from a twenty-year political dream marked by blind trust in France and on England's help, and the awakening from a