STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1902, sig. 109-5/130

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2 /08 that instead of asking for amnesty, the rich must be given an act of action, and therefore suggested that the President of the Republic and the government would offer the leader the opportunity to use the Czech government force in the fight for the new Europe on the front. At the end of the discussion, it would have been agreed that the President of State and the Government would like to submit this decision to the Secretary of State with a request for referral to the Führer. On the occasion of the meeting of the Secretary of State, the President of the Republic and the Government asked the Führer to take part in a review of the situation and to offer him the following answer to Minister Moravec: "I am extremely surprised by his mission and the content of it. While I am aware that he has, personally and thankfully, long been expressing the view that the government force must be deployed in the fight against the enemies of the Empire, that the President of the Republic and the Government are now also taking this position, it is strange and new to me. After some consideration, I put it literally: 'In view of the great political importance of the request just made, I must assume that the President-in-Office of the