STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 595, sig. 109-4/342

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152 - 2 - The National Bank has also made arrangements for Šrámek and his agents to discuss the former Czech gold treasure, which is located abroad. The direct helpers of Šrámeks in the Czech people are the clergy and the nobility. In their sermons, the priests carry out attacks against the kingdom and conceal their allusions to the present political situation with fondness behind biblical parables from the struggle of the oppressed Israelite people and the Redeemer's experience of Christ. The success of the clergy is based above all on the deep anchoring of the Church in the psychic consciousness of the conservative peasant Czech people. The nobility, which is closely aligned with the clergy as a result of related relations, is absolutely Habsburgian. Thanks to his foreign relations, he is predestined for intelligence activities. As a new political conception of the nobility and the church, a Bohemian kingship is now highlighted. The current leader of the youth of the National Community Prince F. Schwarzenberg is to be proclaimed the Bohemian king in agreement with the local government and foreign emigration, and as such, the emperor Otto von Habsburg will be subordinated to it. The Czech people have different attitudes towards the German people according to their social stratification. The working masses, peasants and workers as well as small middle classes are best and most satisfied in the new order. A constant source of unrest must be seen in the circles of political intellectuals. The bearer of the incitement is the high officialship of the state authorities. The ministries and the law firm of the higher section heads are the actual starting points of whisper propaganda. A political renewal in the Czech people must necessarily also grasp and clean up this sector of bureaucracy.