effort of the Soviet Union and its future post-war position, the Czechoslovak Government is anxious to rally in good time all factors of internal and international consolidation for post-war co-operation. Such factors will include the Czechoslovak Catholicsk, whose co-operation 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 co-operation. 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 |