STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1805, sig. 109-5/33 (damaged)

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- 13 = 37 of the Czech national movement, which is indefensible. Interest in its social position pushes him to the "other side of the barricade". In the Czech movement, a democratic movement that follows the idea of Czech brothers, Hussites, etc. is noticeable. Thus the nobility steps aside, the longer the more consciously imperially conservative becomes. It remains a mistrust against the popular tendencies, just as the country's master has remained a misconstruance against the state's politics. Only in the second half of the 19th century does it become imperially Conservative and without ulterior motives. When the Schmerling government reopens the Landtage on a new basis in 1986 and thus raises the question of relations between Bohemian-minded nobility and Czech movement, a letter from the later leader of the state-law direction, Count Clam-Martinitz to Belcredi, indicates this new attitude. "Possibly friendly, but as general as possible, as long as we cannot face these people in the Landtage, there it will be shown whether and how far we can and can communicate with them, there one will perhaps be able to move the moderate elements to common action." Once again he actively leads a large political enterprise. It is the struggle for the so-called Bohemian state law, which fills the sixties and fails with the fall of the Hohenwart cabinet. The idea of the "historic-political individualities" arising from un-Garish conservative ideas should also be transferred to Cisleitania. This "Böhmische Staatsrecht" is the most significant and not the happiest legacy of the Czech national aspirations of the 19th century from the time of the nobility. If, on the one hand, it strengthened the Czech forces in an integrated way, it was, and this is its decisive perishable disadvantage, that it diverted from the popular-political compensatory possibilities, such as those in the Krems, and helped to create in the Czech people those illusions which led to the national-state claims and illusions of the Czechoslovak Republic and which caused its disaster in the first place. The Bohemian nobility is with