Václav Řehák
Nebál jsem se jít do světa, kde není vše předem jasně dané a nalinkované, a poznat život i z té drsnější stránky. Je důležité jít ke kořeni problému. Spisovatel a cestovatel, narozen za minulého režimu v Československé republice. Více se o mě dozvíte na úvodní stránce tohoto webu, kde jsem poodhalil něco málo o mně.
Mimo to, co jsem o sobě napsal, přidávám ještě, že rád chodím pěšky. Lidé málo používají, ke své vlastní škodě, svoje vlastní nohy. Mám rád seznamovat se jinými kraji a tamní kulturou lidí a zemí.
Mám rád
Klid a pohodu
Svobodu, mojí ženu, cestování, hory, moře.
Selský rozum a zdravý úsudek
Kvalitní muziku - klasickou i rock
Historii, obrazy, divadlo, knihy, staré věci, čisté boty.
Vůni heřmánku, lipového květu, sena, pečeného selete, pořezaného dřeva, čerstvého pečiva.
To žádné parfémy nedokáží napodobit!
Dobré jídlo - vařil jsem v Sydney i Londýně, takže mohu porovnávat.
Víno - spíš suché, ladné a harmonické, a určitě raději bílé než červené.
Ale i dobré červené dokáže vykouzlit nezapomenutelné okamžiky.
Pivo – správně vychlazené a dobrou single malt whisky.
Inteligetní humor
Umím
Česky a Anglicky.
Ještě se trochu domluvím v několika dalších jazycích.
Smát se, miluji smích.
Umím vařit, jezdit na kolečkových bruslích a kole, plavat, hrát kulečník a mariáš, kuželky i petanque.
Dát někomu klidně do nosu, když si to zaslouží.
Zpívat ve sklípku u dobrého vína.
Most books on the subject of gold focus on and are devoted to the history and present of money, monetary systems and the role of gold in monetary circulation.
This book is of course also devoted to gold and at the same time it is the story of a girl who, based on the diary of her great-grandfather - a Royal Air Force aircraft mechanic who served in the RAF in World War II - devotes the book to facts published by the Bank of England 70 years after the end of World War II.
So the book is not intended only for economic experts or workers in the banking sector, but for a wider circle of readers who are interested in the issue of the relationship between money and gold. For those who like suspense, those who like stories, both historical and contemporary, because two stories are intertwined in the book - one from the present and the other from the period of World War II.
It is not only about the role of gold in the monetary system, the gold standard, which was supposedly overcome. Here, readers will learn why we are facing a painful revelation in this regard in the future. But mainly about how much and why Czechoslovakia had to give up gold, how much gold it was deprived of by its allies and enemies during World War II.
Lord Runciman to Prime Minister Westminster SW1
September 21, 1938
Dear Prime Minister,
when I accepted the task of mediator between the
Czechoslovak government and the Sudeten German side, I of course
had all the freedom to obtain my own information and come to my
own conclusions. It was not my duty to draft the report. In the present
circumstances, however, my views, which I have arrived at on the
basis of this mission, and certain suggestions which I believe should
be considered if anything resembling a final solution is to be arrived
at, may be of use to you.
The problem of political, social and economic relations
between the Teutonic and Slavic races in the territory now called
Czechoslovakia has existed for many centuries with periods of fierce
struggle and periods of relative calm. This is not a new problem and
at the current stage there are both new and old factors that would
have to be considered in any detailed study.
When I arrived in Prague at the beginning of August, an
urgent question arose before me (1) constitutional, (2) political and
(3) economic. It was the constitutional question that I dealt with
immediately and directly. At that time, it was about providing a
certain degree of self-government to the Sudeten Germans within the
Czechoslovak Republic. The question of self-determination has not yet
appeared in an acute form.
My task was to familiarize myself with the development of this
problem, with the persons most affected by it, and with proposals for
solutions from both sides, i.e. with the "Nastein" presented by the
Sudeten German party to the Czechoslovak government on June 7
(which, by the way, included 8 points from the speech of Mr. Henlein
in Karlovy Vary) and with the proposal of the nationality statute, the
language law and the law on the reform of state administration
submitted by the Czechoslovak government.
It was clear that none of these proposals was sufficiently
acceptable to the other side to form the basis for further negotiations,
and negotiations were therefore suspended on 17 August. After a
series of private talks between the Sudetenland leaders and the Czech
authorities, the Czechoslovak government accepted a new basis for
negotiations, which it informed me on September 5th and the
Sudetenland leaders on September 6th. It was the so-called Fourth
Plan.
In my opinion, and I believe also in the opinion of the more
responsible Sudeten representatives, this plan includes almost all the
requirements of the 8 Karlovy Vary points, and after a little
clarification and expansion, it can include all of them. On this
favorable and hopeful basis negotiations should be resumed at once,
but I fear that the very fact that the proposals are so favorable will
work against them among the more extreme members of the Sudeten
German party.
I believe that the incident arising from the visit of certain
Sudeten German deputies, who went to investigate the case of persons
arrested for arms smuggling in Moravian Ostrava, was used as a
pretext for the postponement of the negotiations, if not for their
complete interruption. However, the Czech government immediately
yielded to the Sudeten German side on this matter, and preliminary
negotiations on the Fourth Plan began on September 10.
I believe that this again does not sit well with the Sudeten
extremists, which is why they provoked and incited the incidents of
9/11 and with greater success after Hitler's 9/12 speech. As a result
of the bloodshed and riots thus caused, the Sudeten delegation
refused the meeting with the Czech authorities, which was planned
for September 13. Mr. Henlein and Mr. Frank presented another list of
demands: the withdrawal of the state police, the limitation of the
army's activities to military duties, etc. The Czechoslovak government
was again willing to accept on the only condition that a party
representative would come to Prague and discuss ways to maintain
order. On the night of September 13, Mr. Henlein refused this
condition, and all negotiations were completely suspended.
It is quite obvious that we cannot now go back to where we
were two weeks ago. We have to consider the situation we are in now.
After the rejection of the Czechoslovak government's offer on
September 13 and the breakdown of negotiations by Mr. Henlein, my
function as a mediator effectively ended. Directly and indirectly, the
connection between the main Sudeten leaders and the government of
the empire became the dominant factor in the situation, the dispute
ceased to be an internal dispute. It was not part of my function to try
to mediate between Czechoslovakia and Germany.
The responsibility for the final breakdown of negotiations
must, in my opinion, be attributed to Mr. Henlein and Mr. Frank and
those of their followers at home and abroad who incited them to
extreme and unconstitutional actions.
However, I have great sympathy for the Sudetenland cause.
It's hard when you're ruled by a foreign race. And I got the impression
that the Czechoslovak government in the Sudetenland areas in the
last twenty years, while not actually oppressive and certainly not
"terrorist", was marked by tactlessness, lack of understanding, petty
intolerance and discrimination to such an extent that the resentment
of the German population had to necessarily leading to revolt.
Sudeten Germans also felt that in the past the Czechoslovak
government had made many promises to them, but these promises
had been followed by few, if any, actions.
These experiences led to an attitude of open distrust towards
leading Czech statesmen. I cannot say to what extent this distrust is
deserved or undeserved, but it certainly exists, and the consequence of
it is that, however conciliatory these statesmen may speak, they do
not gain confidence in the minds of the Sudeten Germans. Moreover,
in the last election in 1935, the Sudeten German Party won more
votes than any other single party, effectively forming the second
strongest group in the country's 300-member parliament. After more
members joined the party, it is the largest party in parliament.
However, they can always be outvoted, which is why some of
them believe that the constitutional procedure cannot be applied to
their affairs.
Local nuisances were added to these main complaints. Czech
officials and policemen who did not speak German at all or only very
poorly were appointed in large numbers to purely German districts,
Czech agricultural colonists were encouraged to settle on plots
handed over as part of the land reform in the midst of the German
population, for the children of these Czechs schools were built on a
large scale by the invaders, it is generally believed that Czech
companies were given priority in the awarding of state contracts and
that the state provided work and aid to the Czechs much more
willingly than to the Germans. I think these complaints are largely
valid.
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