the Holy See with this memorandum. I desire after the war  
to render to the Czechoslovak people an account of the  
activities of our Governnent also in respect of our ecclesiastical   
policy, and to show them that we neglected no aspect of  
our international relations. I should be happy if we were  
really able to take a step forward and thus ensure in the  
future a propitious development of the relations between  
the Holy See and the Czechoslovak Republic. This is a benefit  
which is surely deserved by our Czechoslovak people, so sorely  
tried, so terribly persecuted and so unspeakably martyred  
both in the Czech territories and in Slovakia under the present  
regime controlled there by Nazi Germany.
 
     
 
 
The difficulties,too, which after the war might  
confront us in ecclesiastical and religious matters as a  
result of the strain of the war events couldbe avoided or  
at least reduced to a minimum. Such a result would redound to