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