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

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- 40 - German posts, threatened in his position. A7 successor Nebeský's was named besides Fousek also the chairman of the NG idea commission Dr.Teyrovský. In its generally negative attitude to the struggle of the RG, the NG did not change anything, even though the members of the Ng Central Committee and all officials and employees of the Central Secretariat had to visit the exhibition "Deutscho Größe" at the expense of NG. In the central office of the NG, again this month more "whispered" than worked, with the Secretary General Dr.Mrazik giving a clear example of the daily reception of a lot of visitors and cynical statements that NG radio operators would be paid for doing nothing just as much as for a work, a member of the Central Committee marked the inner situation of NG with the words that it was in the "Yugoslav fever". After the unwelcome end of Yugoslavia's hope for freedom, the focus was primarily on the Sokol attitude and the speech of the state secretary K.H. Frank. On the latter side, the NG officials, who mostly attribute themselves to the intellectual strata, predominate the negative voices (e.g. Tabor, Pilsen and Prague). The Czech intelligence goes the way of its consciousness and heart and the Secretary of State will never mind it. Noteworthy are the statements of leading NG-A. 3. fire members to the acknowledging words of the state secretary about the Czech worker and peasant. D. NG chairman Nebeský said that these were acceptable and were the starting point of a new one. The exponent of the clerical wing dacteur Scheinost, pointed out at the risk that some Czechs, especially workers, could be caught by such re- enactments. Moreover, the talk of the Catholic point of view should be rejected, since it was too materialistic. The Secretary General Dr.Mrazik took the view that the Secretary of State was following the workers. In the province too, apart from the generally prevailing Yugoslavian psychosis, there were repeatedly anti-rich statements on the part of NG officials. For example, the NG site manager and deputy mayor of Polzan (OLB Tabor) told witnesses that only one traitor could believe England would lose the war. In Nerotowitz (OLb Jitschin) the Ng youth leader demanded a teh--