Support of the Czechoslovakian government was pledged by Deputy Dr. Angelo Goldstein, speaking for the Jewish Party, in an address to Parliament.
“We do not believe,” he said, “that it is patriotic to vote mere### for State necessities. We ho### that the contrary is unpatriotic a### the beginning of treason, but p### triotism begins only when people seek to do more for the State than bare essentials, when people work together in order to pull the State to which they belong out of the rut of want and offer it everything that it needs for its well-being.
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