Negotiations of the Czechoslovak government with Vatican 1963-1967

Due to the initiative of the Czechoslovak Government, the Czechoslovak-Vati can relations were closed in the year 1950, but not officially interrupted. At the beginning of the 60s the Vatican showed(the initiative of Pope John XXIII) interest in the negotiations on mutual relations and on the positio n of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak government replied positively. Several Czechoslovak bishops were allowed to take part in the 2nd Vatican Council in Autumn 1962. E. Necsey, the bishop, brought f rom Rome the Vatican's proposals for the negotiations on a wide range of ex isting problems, but the Czechoslovak government kept, however, more or les s a wait-and-see policy. Compared to the Vatican, the Czechoslovak governme nt was in a more favourable situation because they had the situation in Cze choslovakia fully under control.