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PRAGUE DOMESTIC .SERVICE IN CZECH 1200 GMT 2 AUG 68 A 
CSPEECH BY CZECHOSLOVAK PARTY FIRST SECRETAHY ALEXANDER DUBCEK-­
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CEDIToR·s NOTE: THE ANNOUNCER INTRODUCES_DUBCEK·s SPEECH BY SAYING: . "SHORTLY AFTER . 1200 A SPECIAL PLANE FROM RUZYNE ARRIVED IN 
BRATISLAVA CARRYING THE MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE 
CZECHOSLOVAK COMMUNIST PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE HEADED BY 

ALEXANDER DUBCEK, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC_LUDVIK SVOBODA, AND 
FOREIGN MINISTER PROF DR JIRI HAJEK, WHO WILL ATTEND TOMORRow·s 
MEETING OF THE LEADING POLITICIANS OF SIX SOCIALIST 
COUNTRIES. SHORTLY BEFORE DEPARTURE COMRADE_DUBCEK ADDRESSED THE 
FOLLOWING SPEECH TO THE LISTENERS OF CZECHOSLOVAK RADIO•> 
CTEXT> HONORED FELL·OW CITIZENS AND COMRADES: YESTERDAY WE 
RETURNED_· FROM NEGOTIATIONS OF SEVERAL DAYS WITH REPRESENTATIVES 

OF THE CPSU CENTRAL COMMITTEE. WE WENT THERE WITH YOUR FULL CONFIDENCE AND AWARE OF.THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TASKS WHICH WE HAVE T-0 SOLVE IN THE INTEREST OF THE CZECHOSL<JJAK COMMUNIST PARTY ~AND OUR PEOPLE. WE KNEW OF THE HOPES AND FEARS. WITH WHICH YOU FOLLOWED OUR TALKS. ALL THE MORE, I CONSIDER IT MY DUTY TO THANK YOU ALL FOR THE WISE AND CIRCUMSPECT ATTITUDE WHICH RECENTLY 
HAS CULMINATED IN THE MOVEMENT TO SUPPORT.BY SELF-SACRIFICING WORK OUR EFFORTS CONCERNING THE PROBLEMS WHICH HAVE ARISEN AMONG US AND CERTAIN COMMUNIST PARTIES IN THE INTEREST OF THE FURTHER DEMOCRAT.IZATION PROCESS AND POST•JANUARY POLIC~ OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK 
COMMUNIST PARTY. . 
ON WEDNESDAY LUDVIK SVOBODA, PRESIDENT OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK 
SOLIALIST REPUBLIC, SPOKE ABOUT THIS. WE PROMISED YOU TO STAND 
FIRMLY ON THE POSITIONS.OF POST-JANUARY POLICY IN WHICH IT IS 
OUR AIM TO BUILD IN OUR COUNTRY A SOCIALIST SOCIETY WHICH WILL 
HAVE A. GENUINE IMAGE,SWHlCH WILL BE DEMOCRATIC,. SOCIALLY JUST, 
AND OF A.MODERN ORIENTATION, IN WHICH SOCIALIST VALUES WILL BE 

CLOSELY LINKED .. WITH NATIONAL VALUES, AND . IN WHICH, ACCORDING TO 
THEIR OWN KNOWLEDGE AND CONSCIENCE~ OUR CITIZENS .WILL SOVEREIGNLY 
DECIDE THEIR DESTINY. AT THE SAME TIME, WE PROMISED THAT IN THE 
SPIRIT OF THE TRUST YOU PUT IN US, AS IN THE PAST, VE WILL 
REMAIN LOYAL TO OUR FRIENDS AND WE WILL NOT BETRAY THE 
PRINCIPLES OF PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM., THE PRINCIPLES OF 

·COLLABORATION, AND tHE COMMON STRUGGLE OF THE PROGRESSIVE FORCES 9
IN PARTICULAR THE FORCES OF SOCIALISM. 
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.XX X fOR THIS MEETING. 
<TEXT> THE PREPARATION OF THE MEETING, THEREFORE, DOES NOT 
CALL FOR ANY FURTHER BILATER~ TALKS,SIF FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN 
CONSIDERATIONS OF TIME IN VIEW OF THE IMPENDING _14TH CONGRESS OF 
THE CZECHOSLOVAK COMMUNIST PARTY. . 
AT THE BRATISLAVA MEETI-NG WE SHALL CONCENTRATE OUR ATTENTION 
0 THE COIMON INTERESTS OF THE <?COMMUNIST MOVEMENT> AND WE LOOK 
0 THIS MEETING AS A PRACTICAL STEP IN THIS DIRECTION IN tHE INTERESTS OF INTERNATIONALISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST OVE E t. AnER THIS STEP, OTHE~S. WILL FOLLOW• . 
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. IMMEDIATELY. AFTER THIS MEETING THERE WILL BE TALKS WITH · 1 
OUR FRIENDS FROM. YUGOSLAVIA AND RUMANIA. _WE WISH TO SHOW ·IN OUR · 
I TER ATIONAL RELATIONS THE SAME PRUDENCE, THE SAME SENSE OF . I I ITIATIVE AS IN OUR · INTERNAL DEMOCRATIC-SOCIALIST-POLICY. VE 
BELIEVE VE .SHALL SUCCEED IN . THIS . AND THAT BY SO D.OI NG WE SHALL · · 
BE HELPI 8 NOT ONLY OUR OWN DEVELOPMENT, BUT THAT WE SHALL ALSO BE . 
EETING OUR OBLIGATIONS TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT . OF SOCIALISM AND · THE CAUSE OF PEACE IN THE WORLD. AND, THROUGH OUR CONTRIBUTION, · VE SHALL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMU IST MOVEllENT. · . · . 
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ESTEEMED CITIZENS, COMRAD.ES I THANKS ALSO T_O YOUR HELP, WE 
HAVE DONE A PIECE OF HONEST WORK AT CIERNA NAD TISOU TOGETHER WITH OUR SOVIET FRIENDS, TO WHOM VE MUST EXPRESS OUR . . C.ATITUDE AND THANKS FOR THE MANNER IN WHICH THEY APPROACHED OUR 
GOTIATIONS. 
I REPEAT AGAIN: ALL OF US, AND ALSO OUR FRIENDS ABROAD, MUST 
SEE TO IT THAT WE SEEK tlAYS--PATIENTLY, CALMLY t AND WITH 
U AINED ENDEAVOR•.•OF 'STRENGTHENINS OUR COOPERATION, FRIENDSHIP,

D UTUAL UNDERSTANDING. BY SO DOING VE SHALL CREATE FAVORABLE 
CO TIO S FOR A SUCCESSFUL PREPARATION ·oF THE 14TH CONGRESS 
0 OUR P Y FOR THE CREAZION OF ENDURING SAFEGUARDS OF THOSE 
HICK <WE •ED> FOUGHT AT THE JANUARY PLENUM AND DURING 
UARY ERA. LET US, IN THE INTERESTS OF THESE AIIS• Dl:llOEITR~~TE· ..AGAI THE PRUDENCE AND STATESMANLIKE WISDO OF OUR u COi! THE REPRESENTATIVES or THE FR TERN L COM UNI T 
•1tfl•nE B ITTI THE MATURITY OF OUR PEOPL , I A 
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