English Translation

13 ae e ee da K ap r a š on October 3rd l94l in the Prague Representation House to representatives of the Czech higher schools. For 1/2 noon, the directors (representatives) of all Czech high schools of the Protectorate were gathered together with two students each from their institution to the contrary of the enclosed declaration of the Minister of Education in the representation house, in total about 7oo persons. They had not been notified of the purpose of the event and, as many of them feared that they might be held hostage, the mood before the event, especially with the teachers, was somewhat depressed.Remember that all those present were eagerly following the Minister's not always understandable words. From the faces of individual older directors in the first rows it was to be assumed that they were terrified by the opening of the minister. At the end of the event, the pupils moved away for the time being because the teachers were restrained to the contrary of printing places. The unusual restraint of the participants in the corridors and stairs was striking. Prior to the event, Deputy Prime Minister K r e j č i expressed the intention, following, as he said, a somewhat professorial presentation by the Minister of Education, to propose a more effective approach to the gatherings, which should conclude with a spontaneous "I vow" of those present. He was prevented from doing so in view of the Secretary of State's mandate, and then, as he said, in agreement with the Secretary-General, he spoke to the Assembly, in which he, on behalf of the ROe@uf, called upon those present to take heed of the words of Minister Kapras and to adhere strictly to them.