English Translation

- 3 - to deploy their elite troops. Although rumours are spread out of this confident mood; that all preparations for a winky uprising in Protectorate had already been met by the Ischechen, that parachute agents with their aims to mingle among the people, in order to prepare it for a common revolution, had been deposed, one does not consider the eye - momentous moment given, not any German enemy action to emerge in order thereby to avoid unnecessary bloodshed "at the last moment". On 14 February, a rally was held in Brno, attended by some 1,300 people by the Land Association for Agriculture and Forestry in Moravia, at which Minister Hrubý gave a speech. Hruby stressed that in today's time, when the struggle between good and evil had reached its peak, the work of the Czech and Moravian peasants must be a contribution to the great struggle. The Czech people had a share in these struggles, as they lent strength to the fighters on the front through their work in the homeland. He pointed out: to the time when he took over the ministry, and said that he was convinced that he would never be envied of the current function which he had assumed with the success of the Christian and the honorability of a farmer. Thousands of Nihrian peasants, who had recognized their phantoms for the sanity and especially for their brothers in the city, who expect bread from them, to whom the Czech soil was entrusted, for themselves and their children. The minister pointed out that the farmer knew well what danger Bolshevism posed, which would have turned the sovereign churches, where through centuries entire generations of the Moravian people prayed to God and the Almighty, into memory. Hrubý stated: "It would be very deceptive to the one who would expect from the ''Red Danger of Mercy or a better life.'i - 4 -