English Translation

- tT - in which each Czech has to prepare himself for the coming tasks (e.g. OLB Klattau). It was observed that. Consultations of Sokol-Funkti- ären were held for the purpose of following the Meldun- gen about riots of the Serb Sokol against popular German similar measures under the leadership of the Czech Sokol in the Protectorate. The fraternization scenes between the Yugoslav and Czech Sokolns were also remembered at the last Sokol Congress in Prague in l938; in local Sokol circles it was expressed that the "brothers" in Serbia had attacked the Czech liberation work (OLB Pardubitz and Olmütz), and that the Czech Socol had to be able to strengthen the active resistance to the Empire right now. As a sign of active measures of the lower units of the Sokol, the increased gymnastics activity in the Socol-Ortsgruppen (e.g. OLB Olmütz) was also to be considered as an indication of the anti-German turn of Yugoslavia. In Klattau, an action "Show what you can" was carried out, which was disguised as a military education and whose exercises, according to points, are similar to those of the German military sports badge; all active Sokol members participated in these exercises. The prohibition of activity imposed on the whole Sokol in the Protectorate, which was carried out by the Czech district authorities with the help of Czech police organs on l2. and l3. 4, includes the prohibition of any activity of the Sokol on gymnastic, assembly and cultural territory. In order to avoid social hardships and economic difficulties, the ban was not extended to the catering and sokol cinemas most of which are affiliated to the Sokol homes. The association's assets were secured; the Sokol members were forbidden to transfer corporate or mass into other, similar association organizations, or to establish them as camouflage clubs. Among Sokol's members and the Socol's closest circles, this ban was largely dismayed and embittered, although it had been expected in many cases. On the other hand, the broader strata of the Czech population showed only quite a few of the deeper effects of the cessation of activity of the Sokol; in places, e.g. in Czech workers' and peasants circles, the ban was welcomed as an effective measure against the beneficent intellectual circles.