A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2526, sig. 109-12/173

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-7-8 Dresden and other cities. These posters, to whose distance the German gendarmes are not sufficient, bear witness to the attitude of the German people. The rich German radio broadcast yesterday spread the rumor that seven high officials of the Communist Party were invading Prague and held consultations at the headquarters of the communist party. Officially, it is explained that this message is a pure invention. Prague Day Paper Prague, September 24, 1938. The phrase: "We are not alone." All military and moral means against an attack. At 1/4 1l a.m., the announcement of the mobilization was the indispensable, only measure that secures our republic against attacks and the decisive and clear last attempt to save peace. This peace can only be saved if, at the last moment, where one tries to resist it, one is told that every attack is carried out by all military and moral means, in defense of the state for our generation and for all future generations. We have shown to the whole world that we are willing to make the greatest sacrifices of the nation and the state to serve the cause of peace. We were willing to bring Öpfer to the extreme and to give everything to keep national and state independence. All citizens go where they put the republic and all will be in their place. All of us have a single thought: the service to the Republic. At the Grehze stands the army. At our state borders a sudetenGerman free corps has formed, whose leadership is entrusted to people who have fled from the Republic of aús cowardice from responsibility for their criminal acts. The activity of this body consists in the provocation of incidents which are intended to provoke our security bodies at the border. The members of this Mrganixationäss Freikorps attack with smaller divisions SS and SA state customs offices, financial guards and state buildings, prepare attacks on railways, plunder, rob and murder where the slightest resistance is awoke. It is not a regular military, because civilized Sol- data do not proceed in this way. Our main task is to ensure the maintenance of order and security within the state and especially at the borders. The security measures taken so far - the suspension of the right to stand in twenty quarters - have proved to be effective. On the ground of the whole republic there is peace. Along the whole border stands the Czechoslovak army. It will be good to bring everyone who would continue, in the alarm of our borders with weapons in hand, to the awareness that with weapons is not played. Whoever wants to return from the concentration camps to his homeland, will find the borders open. With the wagon in his hand he must be prepared for this to be denied." The statement of the allies. We are not alone. In the last two days, the international situation has changed so decisively and surprisingly that today our nation and our state are conscious of