STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134

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50 - 35 - Great dismay caused in German-friendly and right-wing opposition circles the government decree for the execution of insidious attacks, which there is regarded as a means of the political leaders to suppress a richly friendly Oppositi(n), according to the Vevor- ry, which is modelled after § 2 of the German Insidual Law of 20.12.1934, are publicized. (b) statements of hatred, incitement or low-mindedness about the head of the autonomous administration or about members of the government of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, their orders or the institutions they have created, which are capable of giving the people confidence in the above-mentioned representatives of the independent administration of the protectorate of Böhmen and To undermine Moravia, with arrest for up to five years. In the same way, non-public malicious statements are punished if the perpetrator calculates or has to expect that they will enter the public, the persecution of such acts occurs only at the order of the Minister of Justice. In the administration, efforts were continued to sabotage the dismantling of civil servants, where he could not be dealt with, people tended to dismantle politically unburdened officials, while trying to keep loyalties to the old regime in office. the efforts to mitigate the planned reduction, in the case of railway undertakings, would be temporarily undermined by the planned pesioning and would only come at a later stage after another key to implementation. Some time ago, a secret meeting of the railway workers' professional organisation was held in Prague, in which it was informed that there was no need to worry about retirement, since not even one fifth of the officials scheduled for retirement would be dismissed; all the others would remain in the service due to invalidity. It was also intended to indicate reliable persons who could be hired for the dischargers, so that no traitors would come in their place. As it was further known, the persons who were hired to replace them were first employed as workers and then used in the law firm.