STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134 Page 33 · 33 of 83
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134
English Translation
VE - 16 of the local NG youth was signed, An advertising campaign for the entry of Czech women into the fire brigade is reported from Neustadt (OLB Königgrätz), where at a general meeting of the Neustädter fire brigade district, which was fed by 55 fire brigades, the decision was taken to promote the accession of women to the local associations. The ban on the mass transfer of members of the Sokol to other organisations is often violated by the Czech fire brigades. In Moravian-Weisskirchen (OLB Olmütz), for example, at the last meeting of the local volunteer fire brigade there, it was decided to transfer the local Sokol youth group to the Czech youth fire brigade. In the days of the Yugoslav conflict, the legionaries, too, emerged as the spokesman of the anti-German mood. A united front between legionaires, Sokoln and Jews immediately emerged. The legionaries, who have already retired, are endeavouring to show by self-confident appearance that they have not lost any of their public standing or self-esteem by their dismissal. In anticipation of a near victory, the legionaries had already created lists of German and German-friendly Czechs in some places and boasted in public with their revenge plans. In Kralowitz (OLB Pilsen) the retired legionaires were overcrowded with special sympathy. 194l expressed his surprise at the fact that such people could appear "overaged" and "retirementous" by labour force and by flesh. With particular satisfaction it was noted in the legionary friendly Czech public that the massacres against the legionsaries have not yet seized the gendarmerie and government troops, so that the "armed brothers" are still to be reckoned with. Even the legationaries employed by the railway could one day still provide valuable services. The cessation of the activity of the Sokol, which has recently been engaged in the popular specialization of the Moravian Slöwaken and tried to turn it in favour of Czech-Centralist endeavours, is likely to be considered as an essential relief for Moravian Slovakism. Nevertheless, the attempts of the Czech side, in the context of cultural actions,