internal and international consolidation for post-war  
cooperation. Such factors will include the Czechoslovak  
Catholics, whose cooperation 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 cooperation. 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 - a clear idea of how conditions will develop in the  
course of this year and how the present grim events of the  
war will conclude, to approach the Holy See with this  
memorandum. I desire after the war to render to the  
Czechoslovak peeple an account of the activities of our