STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 457, sig. 109-4/202

Page 13

English Translation

X 12 t 2/r 7 I welcome you as the members of the new government, which was formed in my capacity as President of the Council, and, as I have already had the opportunity to tell you in individual meetings, this new government is not a normal change of personality but a change of historical significance in connection with the reorganization of the ministries. Before I talk about the needs of the future, I will briefly say a few things about the past. The historical lack of attention to statehood and the time of the republic itself have deliberately drawn the population of Bohemia and Moravia away from organic geopolitical and historically grown belonging to the empire, the political and intellectual masterminds of the first, the plutocratic hake. and - ia coats of a so-called Panslavis - the Bolshevik powers have promoted this error with all hits and the TB-109/41