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

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65 - 44 the Czech opposition as the main critic of the Czech government. Moreover, the Czech hatred, which is currently increasing in general during the Yugoslav confrontation, took place in an intensified persecution of German-friendly Czechs from the ranks of the right-wing opposites. An employee from the Wsetin gunworks (OLB Mähr.- Ostrava) replied to a Vlajkist who greeted him with a raised arm and the Czech Vlayka greeting "Vúdci zdar": "I cut off your hand, because I do not wish to greet a Czech so." The Vlaika leader in Kralup (OLB Kladno) received an anonymous threatening letter signed with "The Black Hand" as an Easter greeting, which began: "We inform you that you will not miss us." In Strakonitz the district leader of the ČNsT spoke about Vlaijka members who wanted to pay their membership contributions, they should refrain from doing so, since the Vlajaka will soon collapse anyway. Pilsener Vlaj- kisten made large-speaker statements about the large number of registrations, which came after the speech of the State Secretary at the Vlayka. In his speech the State secretary had taken over two sentences literally from Rys, what is proof of the good relations of the Vlajka with the highest German peaks(!!). The officials who have left the Vlajka have come to the conviction that they could not enforce their goals in political terms and are currently refraining from setting up their own organisation. The magazine "Obrana národa", which is open to their purposes by the editor Vaněk, offers them a certain focus. In the territory of Moravian Slovakia (OLB Zlin) already in the previous month efforts were made to create a Slovak-separatist political movement. Following a follow-up with Slovak authorities, it was decided to establish a so-called "Slovak People's Party" which would first announce a reflection on the Slovak peoples of the region and then a state-law connection of these areas with Slovakia. However, the basic condition of this political objective should be the agreement of the relevant German authorities.