STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1895, sig. 109-5/123

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English Translation

A six-page brochure entitled "Seven Poems of Jaroslav Kvapils" was recently published by the publishing house F.J.Müller,Prague II, Deutschherrnstrasse, on the occasion of the opening of 80 crowns. It should be a collection of Masonic poems. An article published by Bohumil Mathesius in number 4 of the magazine "Přítomnost" under the title "Uzralý život" (The mature life) has found strong attention in Czech circles, as reported from Prague, insofar as the view expressed by the Czech writer and critic F.X.Šalda is opposed to the dos Minister Moravec, which he had expressed in his speech on the loO. birthday of Vrchlický.In some cases, the article is even called a deliberate polemic against Moravek. Mathesius edited the communist journal Sbornik o SSSR at that time. He also participated actively in the editing of the also communist magazines "Nové Rusko" and "Tvorba". He also appeared as a translator of Russian and Chinese Litorature in the Czech Republic. At the Besedni dum in Brno, a dance evening for learning Slovak dances was organized by the "Slovacký kroužek", to which also in the "Lidové Noviny"tThe Czech youth showed the greatest interest for this evening. Also by unauthorized persons the attempt was made time and again to participate in this dance evening.7 At the German standstandesbeanten in Boskowitz there were in the last quarter more honorable German women and girls who sought permission to marry Czechs. On the 4th, the rooms and gymnasiums of the former Sokol sports field in Brno-Hussowitz were taken over by the German post-sports community of Brno, although the entrances for the opening of the ice rink were not only in German but also in Czech language, the Czechs have remained completely away from the sports field they had visited in the past. The swearing-in of the protectorate troops to the leader and the president of the state Dr. Hácha in the presence of officers of the German Wehrmacht, which was shown in the last week's show, has caused severe damage to Czechs in Königgrätz. Hácha would have been called to Berlin on the 4th of January in order to negotiate with the Führer on the confiscation of the Czechs to the Wehrmacht.Mainly in middle-class circles it is explained that the Czech youth, + was advertised.