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

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33 constructions and how, on the other hand, the nations, for example, with their numberless, healthy strength and energetic activity, become co-ordinators of the new European order. A number of small but hardworking, drunken and skilled Czech people, whom the Prosperity has given beautiful and rich for the country, cannot and must not be a nation that loses its own destiny. After the bitter experience of the years gone by, the Czech nation had a choice of buă to fall to ruin, or to make a new and better life. There is no doubt that the Czech people had already decided in their majority; not to look back, not to sit on two chairs, but in disciplinedly locked rows of honest work to build their better next within the Great German Empire. In this decision, the Czech nation must not be disturbed by anyone. Those who have fled abroad and left the nation to its destiny in the hardest times have no rights or moral legitimacy to interfere with our internal affairs. The position of the Czech people is definitely decided and the Czech aarád will take care of its future itself. The government of Protek- toratu decisively and definitively rejects all activities of Czech emigration. The government also urges every Czech man to stand back and deafly in his country's interest and the nation's interests against all attempts of Czech emigration to disturb the domestic disciplined front. In doing so, the Protectorate's government says that anyone who would need to be tempted from the instructions of the emigrant push-ups will be disarmed and severely punished by the domestic peace, work performance and loyalty to the Empire. . ./.