Prvotní programy Rady svobodného Československa pro zahraniční politiku
Foreign Politics Initial Programmes of the Council of Free Czechoslovakia

Summary/Abstract: The Council of Free Czechoslovakia was founded as a politic representation of Czechoslovak democratic anticommunist exile in February 1949. The need for specific foreign politics programme was saturated by the programme from the beginning of January 1951, in following phase by rather more elaborated documents from November 1952 and February 1953. All these texts were written by Hubert Ripka, diplomat, and minister of Czechoslovak goverments both in the exile one (1941–1945) and in the first post-war one (1945–1948). The programmes accentuate that an own „liberation politics“ plans are necessary and that for propagation of Council’s goals, the support of politicians and public opinion of the free world countries is essential. The council took a prominent stance on the behalf of European integration, suggesting integration of Central and East European countries as a specific united formation. Furthermore, the solution of the sensitive Czechoslovak–German relation was obvious as a result of intensive European integration, when German democracy would have been strengthened and German nationalism weakened. These documents are the first degree in the well known „Ripka’s plan“ from the 1950s.

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