to Czechoslovak affairs during the present terrible international crisis. They gratefully   
welcomed the action of the Holy See with regard to the occupation of the Archbishopric of   
Prague after the death of His Eminence Cardinal Kaypar. They fully realised the difficulties   
with which the Holy See was confronted as a result of the proceedings of the German and   
Hungarian both in the Czech territories and in Slovakia governments, and Carpathian Ruthenia.   
In view of the fact that the issue here concerns war events which have not yet been finished,  
their desire is that all States and Powers with which the Czechoslovak Republic maintained   
diplomatic relations until September,1938, should preserve a neutral attitude at least, if   
possible, in the same spirit as the Unit,ed States of America or Great Britain, who never,   
not even before or after the outbresk of war in 1939, discontinued their international relations   
with the Czechoslovak legations in