STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1657, sig. 109-4/1412 Page 26 · 26 of 122
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1657, sig. 109-4/1412
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25 - 21 - educational and didactic page of the book. Especially interesting are the regulations, which were issued in Erzieherischer respect. It seems at least somewhat strange to see here the opinion of the state in its minority policy openly. If one only opens the eyes a little, the background of these regulations cannot remain unclear. Thus one finds literally the sentence:- "State awareness and fatherly feeling must be inoculated by the school books to the pupils at all levels."This sentence is more sharpened than mitigated by the rule that any one-sided and tendentious opinion "fearful" should be avoided and "every word with caution" weighed down accordingly that it "does not hurt the national and religious feeling of the pupils in the least." Nor is it generally permitted to say anything about the political parties, against which the greatest possible objectivity is to be applied, except for parties which have their foundations outside the constitution and work towards "disruption of the 27) state order. Also interesting are the rules on spelling; here we find the ideology of Czechoslovakism officially laid down. The Czechoslowak language is then subdivided into a