In the first half of the 1930s, Henlein held a pro-Czechoslovak and overtly anti-Nazi view in his public views and speeches. As early as 15 May 1934, the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Edvard Beneš in a note to President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk accused Henlein's "Heimfront" of being financially supported by Berlin. Beneš's suspicions were correct. From April 1934 onward, the "Heimfront" was being subsidized by not only the "Auswärtiges Amt", but also by the "Verband für das Deutschtum im Ausland" ("Society for Germandom Abroad"). To avoid having his party being banned by a Czechoslovak government that clearly disliked his movement, Henlein always praised democracy in his speeches, but there always a pronounced "völkisch" tone in his writings and speeches. The major theme of Henlein's speeches was always for the need for "unity" in the Sudeten German community to allow the Sudetenlanders to present themselves as "one body" that would be able to talk to the Czechs "Volk" to "Volk" and thus "right" the ""injustice of 1918".