STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2531, sig. 109-12/178 (damaged)

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3(V Vilinský and radio P.D. Saturday 3.Feber 4o. XOOOOLYEMLLOLOOOOOOOOOOOOODOOOOooOOOO Contemporaries of vefurekeingußeereenEstimating the meaning and importance of great earths correctly.Direct observers tend to judge moving and lively times in the first moments differently than after a shorter time interval.This shows a certain gedan-kenchaos, but this usually disappears very soon.Only then does everyone tend to become clear what actually happened.The original judgment is corrected and supplemented, the unriohte view deviates from the far more thoughtful and much more objective view. There were plenty of people among us who thought in the previous year after March 1st that the importance of the Bohemian countries was to a rapid decline both politically and economically. It is only necessary to remember what speeches among the population were circulating about the consequences of our adaptation to the imperial economy. It is clear that the most improbable inventions have been circulated about the decline of our political significance. Some have perhaps lost sight of the fact that we have other objectives than purely cultural or the principled task of maintaining national substance. Today, when we reflect on these allegations and views, we see that shortsightedness was their first lack. Since 1 5 March, we have already seen that the Czech economic system continues to exist, although the mission is generally recognised. Agriculture is not a bad thing, but rather its overall situation is improving, and the Commissioner for State Affairs Dr.Gross has recently rightly underlined the fact that the basic line is to bring all agricultural production in our countries to the highest possible level.The decline in unemployment is a phenomenon that is so common today that we no longer pay attention to it and that we see something as natural in the lack of labour in individual branches.