STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 59, sig. 109-1/65 (damaged)

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25 - 8 - Construction at the district authority, to which a number of broadcasts are directly addressed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, has occasionally pointed out in Strakonitz that it was directly deployed by the ministry and that its independence should be increased later. The head of the road construction department recalled that until the year 1 928 the road building department was allegedly independent, and mentioned that the road development department regained self-defence and included large districts. The German district heads gained more and more overview of the achievements and the attitude of the Czech civil servants. As a result, the district head in Klattau slowly separates the good stock from the incompetent. To what extent the inability of a significant part of the Czech officialship is due to lack of skills or will, however, can be overlooked neither in general nor in particular. The district head in Strakonitz was surprised at various ministerial meetings, how the office, in particular the speakers, accepted his proposals, whether he was challenging counter proposals, without pointing out e to the experiences that it must have. He also noted that he had not received the slightest suggestion from the Czech civil service. He says about the speakers that they are extremely unspeakable, constantly complaining about the work, partly also being revised, because they do not understand how to divide the work into and divide it, do not want to assume responsibility, flee in small things, do much more diligent manual, simple work, in order to at least do enough and to be able to point out it. The reports submitted by the various departments for the possible administrative report of the district authority are also to be criticised; for the most part, they contain little more than a numerical review of files completed, as if the activity of the regional authorities would consist only of a sum of operations without an organic connection. A report, which is at the same time a kind of self-control, an account of the work done and a plan for the future, is the