STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2186, sig. 109-9/10

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59 8th century. The fact that the conversion to the idea of the Reich did not proceed like a leap-like economic phenomenon, but gradually completes itself with steadily increasing tendencies, speaks only for the durability of this reorientation. If today Czechs may still be distant from the idea of the empire, this does not affect the current political requirements in Bohemia and Moravia, but that these Czechs do not actively oppose the idea. In Bohemia and Moravia today there are a gratifying number of activists for the empire, X1 bonfouteol an tar In the four years since the establishment of the Protectorate, Mpedhefu pipand was unable to pass by any Czechs. I believe I can say with certainty that, for example, the Czech worker and farmer today, despite all the war-related economic efforts, does not have the feeling of being exploited with mere lures, but the respectable social and cultural support of the German side. Jafrin glll al dan taplefun habnn gafhomda poarbhha lmoi As for the question of the understanding of the masses for the politics of the President Dr. Hácha, I can say with certainty that his position in the Czech public on an un-politician of the "Ischecho-Slovak Ara" existed. Masaryk had very weighty opponents - I he-inward only to Karel Kramář - and Benesch was already able to assert his presidential election only under the command of all political bribery with little effort and at the last moment. Hácha, on the other hand, is the first Czech leading personality who, as Benesch even confirmed, was unanimously elected and has real love for all the people.