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

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-2- and publications are rejected as pure propaganda. Memories of the years l9l7 and 1918 in Bohemia and the belief in the return of the possibilities of revolution of the year l9L8 play a major role, in which after a military tailing of the empire a Czech-Slovak one. Foreign government under Benesch-Masaryk together with the Czech Maffia brought freedom within and established the Czech-Slovak state. All the speeches by Mrs Besch and his foreign government, which are now being addressed more and more frequently to the home countries via London radio, contain these indications and at the same time demand that resistance and sabotage be carried out, with the most severe penalties being imposed in the event of non-implementation of all the Czechs who do not comply with these statements. In this hostile counter-work and its successes in the mood of the Czechs there are at first no major visible consequences of the established attitude and the ongoing incitement. The inner readiness for the expected coming hours and days of liberation and the will to resist have become more general and stronger. In addition to this, the following measures of labour are being carried out: the transfer of Czech workers to the Old Kingdom and countless partly calculated letters of complaint from these workers from the Reich about their actions in the places of employment which excite Czech minds. The new measures which are now being implemented in the Protectorate for the closure and closure of businesses and enterprises for the freeing of workers, in conjunction with the counter-paroles spread by hostile radio, such as denationalisation, enslavement, etc., give a new boost to the anti-rich mood. In recent times, the work of the security police has largely captured and destroyed the repeatedly rebuilt illegal apparatus of the Communists. A particular success was the arrest of a leading man of the