STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 577, sig. 109-4/324 Page 73 · 73 of 117
A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 577, sig. 109-4324
English Translation
63 - 2 - In principle, however, it is necessary to proceed in this way; it is essential to accept such fatal immutability provisionally, for, as I have already indicated above, we must not deviate from the path of honor on which the movement always steps and can go only in the future. Provisional: The activity of the movement is released on 21 July, for on 2 July. How important the circumstances are can be seen from the fact that on the same day the magazine "Vlajka" came to an end and immediately after a week of training from the courses of the board of trustees 45 instructors of the Board of Trustees for the education of the youth, of which 24 were certainly found to be former Vlaj kists, our comrade Jiří Novotný was arrested, whose honest attitude towards the nation and the kingdom certainly no one of you can be in doubt. Therefore, keep the meetings of the leadership and meetings of members as it is in accordance with the existing assembly regulations. Pro-grammatically, they conduct as it appears in his report to be comrade Otto Polívka. V e r m e i d e t j e d w e d e s Critization of the government or its individual members, because such an opportunity would of course be very desirable for the challenge of further action against the entire movement. Your discipline is more important today than ever. And if, in spite of all this, it would come to the extreme consequences, then, comrades, there is nothing else left but to obey for this time, to return to the bourgeois professions completely and to wait for a besse- res spring after the "winter sleep". None of us sought to find his existence in public activity, so also in this point it will be clear with us. And the time of any kind must pass. Judge yourselves according to the eight basic laws, which I proclaim to you on January 1st for the members of the movement