attitude of His Holiness,Pope Pius XI towards Czechoslovakia  
during the September crisis in 1938 and the message he sent  
to me in the most critical moments of the history of my  
people.
 
     
 
 
It is for all these reasons that I thought a  
time had come when some sort of unofficial contact should  
be reestablished between the new Czechoslovak Government now in London and the Holy See. All   
arrangements that had previously been made regarding ecclesiastical questions  
between the Vatican and the Republic were destroyed by the Nazi Government. The conditions in   
Slovakia are very bad and the servitude of the present Slovak Government of Father Tiso will   
have a very deep influence upon the position of the Catholic Church in Slovakia after the war.   
The persecution of the Czech Catholics in the Czech Protectorate by the Nazis will also be   
of great importance for the post-war policy of the Czech people.