negotiations or disputes either internal or international,  
as a result of events in the course of the war.
 
     
 
 
I myself conducted all negotiations between the Czechoslovak   
Republic and the Holy See from 1919 and I recall how difficult it   
often was. I should be unwilling for this to be repeated. After   
long and difficult discussions I achieved, not only complete   
agreement with the Holy See but, in particular, an approval by   
the Czechoslovak people and Parliament of the settlement of the   
17th December,1927, known as the modus vivendi and gladly accepted   
by all Czech and Slovak Catholics. I consistently saw to it that the  
terms of this settlement were kept, and thus in the period from 1927   
to 1938 the individual, conditions of the modus vivendi were successively   
put into effect. In my view our simplest course would be to revert,   
before the end of the war, to the former relationship without any   
further compltcations, discussions or settlements, by merely renewing the  
former normal diplomatic relations between the Holy See and