internal and international consolidation for post-war cooperation. Such factors will include the Czechoslovak Catholics, whose cooperation in the Government after the war we desire to maintain, and a timely adjustment of the relationship between the Czechoslovak Republic and the Holy See would undoubtedly have a very fundamental bearing upon such cooperation. I believe that Czechoslovakia will again be one of the first States in Central Europe to achieve post-war consolidation. The Czechoslovak Government accordingly desires to complete all preparations in due course, so that after the war, it may continue the policy which it was pursuing at a time when the relations between the Holy See and our country were consolidated, normal and amicable. I regard it as my duty at the present moment when, on the whole, I have - as of course, I personally venture to believe - a clear idea of how conditions will develop in the course of this year and how the present grim events of the war will conclude, to approach the Holy See with this memorandum. I desire after the war to render to the Czechoslovak peeple an account of the activities of our |