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~BIS 207 
~ATIONAL ASSEMBLY LETTER TO SV030DA 
CZECHOSLO~AK RADIO IN CZECH 1906 GMT 22 AUG 68 L 
( 9505, 734 5 KCSJ 
CLETTER FROM THE NATIONAL ASS~MBLY TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE 
CZECHO~LOVAK REPUBLIC> 

CTEXT ) REVERED AND DEAR COMRADE PRESI~E~T: AT THIS GRAVE MOMENT OF OUR HISTORY WE FIRST OF ALL WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNSWERVING DEVOTION TO THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF OUR COUNTRY. WE THANK YOU FOR DEFENDING SO CONS! STE~-lTLY AND P.ESOLUTELY THE LONGINGS OF OUR PEOPLE FOR A SOCIALISM WITH HUMANE FEATURES MTD FOP SOVEREIGNTY AND INDEPENDENCE • WE ASSURE YOU~ONCE AGAIN , AS HAS BEEN DONE MANY TIMES BEFORE.BY MEM3ERS Of OUR PRESIDIUM, NOT ONLY FOR OURSELVES BUT . IN THE NA~E OF.THE ENTIRE CZECHOSLOVAK PEOPLE , OF OUR DEVOTION AND FIRM WILL TO I~SIST IN ALL CIRCU~STANCES ON THE ~AINTAINANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF· OUR REPUBLIC, ITS LAWS AND RIGHTS.· \sTE PROMISE· THAT WE · SHALL RE~!APl LOYAL TO YOU, OUR LEGAL GOVERNMENT, HEADED BY OLDRICH CERNIK, OUP. CHAIRMAN, COMRADE JOSEF SMRKOVSKY, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL FRONT DR KRIEGEL, FIRST SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK COMMUNIST PARTY ALEXANDER DUBCEK, AND THE OTHER REP~ESENTATIVES OF OUR SUPREME INSTITUTIONS AND BODIES. . 
AWARE OF THE HISTORIC RESPONSIBILITY WHICH RESTS ON ALL OF US FOR THE FURTHER LIFE OF OUR COUNTRY,. IN ·ao~EST COQPERATIO~T '•'ITH THE WIDEST STRATA OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK PEOPLE trE 3EG YOU, DEAR COMRADE PRESIDENT, TO CO.ff! ~JUE TO DEVOTE YOUR STRENGTH TO THE COM~O.J . STRUGGLE WHICH WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF. HO~'OR IN THE HISTORY OF OUR 
ATIONS A D WILL ALWAYS BE A BRIGHT PAGE I J ~ORLD HISTORY • WE . 
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CO DIALLY SHAKE YOUR HAND, WISH YOU GOOD HEALTH, AND GREET YOU 
SI CERELY. . 
CSIG ED> THE ATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK SOCIALIST 
REP BLIC, PRAGUE , 22 AUGUST 1968.