Czechoslovakia to Be Turned into “authoritarian Democracy”

The new Czechoslovak “National Party” organized last night through a merger of five groups in the Government’s parliamentary majority today broadcast a program for converting the nation into an “authoritarian democracy” pledged to mold a new State from what remains of Czechoslovakia after its recent partition. The program includes promise of rapid solution of the “question of emigration, particularly Jewish emigration.”

The new National Party is composed of the former Agrarian Republican Party, the National Czechoslovak Socialist Party, formerly headed by ex-President Eduard Benes, the Trades Party, the National union Party and the National Democratic Party. Its aim is to construct a new state as an authoritarian democracy “acting instead of speaking,” the party declared in the broadcast of its platform.

Under the party program the Government would be responsible to the people and the individual would be responsible for his own work. The Government should be national in scope and a new electoral law was proposed to ban the creation of new parties. The foreign policy of Czechoslovakia would be directed in a manner that would assure Republican liberties.” the radio spokesman for the party declared. “We want to live in peace and cooperation with all states and above all with our immediate neighbors. Our former policy should be abandoned.

“In the economic domain, we are partisans of private initiative. Our social policy should be reformed, our schools subordinated to national and religious principles. The family should become the basis of national life. We will prevent foreign elements from interfering with the organization of a new life. We will resolve rapidly the question of emigration, particularly Jewish emigration. We appeal to all men of good will to cooperate in the creation of a new State.”