In May 1928, Henlein in an article in the "Turnerband" journal "Turnerzeitung" called for the "Turnerband" to become the "school" of the Sudeten nation. Politics in the Sudetenland were not so much divided between left and right (though such divisions did exist) as between loyalists "activists" who wanted the Sudeten Germans to take part in the politics of Czechoslovakia and the separatist "negativists" who did not. Henlein with his "völkisch" sympathies was a "negativist" and by 1928 the "Turnerband" was beginning to set itself up as a proto-political party that stood in opposition to the "activist" parties that were serving in the coalition governments in Prague. In another article in "Turnerzeitung" published in December 1930, Henlein called for all Sudeten Germans to embrace "völkisch" ideology and condemned liberalism and democracy as "un-German". Henlein wrote it was the "disciplined "Männerbunde" who rule the present: Fascism, the Hitler movement, the "Heimwehr", etc" and stated that the "Turnerband" was in tune with these "modern phenomena".