and democratically adjust its mutual relationship by  
a revision of the former constitution. The Government therefore   
is anxious to prepare the situation now so that religious and   
ecclesiastical questions after the war may not be unduly complicated   
and, in particular, that the relationship of the Czechoslovak   
Republic to the Holy See may not be complicated nor become the   
subject of special and lengthy 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 llth 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