A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2766, sig. 109-16/1

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R 9N - 7 - already released on 15.5.1935 because of unreliability. The educator Brnčák, who apparently made pacts with the guerrillas, has been put into the works at the express request of the current head of government Dr. T i s o at that time. The Minister said, about literally, that the alovak state had not yet found the form it needed to immediately catch a military treason. He had to admit that the political side in itself had been a matter of state police supervision, so that one should not blame the action in the first place. In the first wave of excitement one had to open a certain valve in the press. One had issued messages without having checked them. After a clear allusion to the radio address directed against Bats he clearly admitted that it had happened in the heat of the battle. This process would not be repeated. He has concrete documents only against Trojan. He can say nothing against Luptak, but one had to look for a sin. It is assumed that Luptack was suspected of being a Lutheran. He had nothing against him. In the government, a Bata debate had not taken place at all, it was about individual statements without any concretization. Bata was by no means the company that counted most Czechs as employees. Other works were known, from which 2 O00 employees had voluntarily transferred to the partisans. For special reasons, however, nothing had been spoken of in the public." Minister Gaspar, with a certain regret,