STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2039, sig. 109-7/46

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- 3 - at present a great battle of colours and flags should be undesirable, the necessary force for enforcement is lacking, the blue should remain in the colors. Instead of the blue of Slovakia the colors Moravian gold and red could step in order in this way to express the double in the protectorate, namely Bohemia and Moravia. ( More information about the Moravian colours at the bottom of the "Moravian Coat of Arms"). Since the coat of arms of Moravia is a gold-red spotted eagle on a blue background, sometimes the blue is also interpreted as "Maravian". This is done in the official declaration on the badge of the National Community. It is executed in the form of a coat of arm's shield in enamel. The shield surface contains the colors of the three countries of the former Bohemian crown (Bohemian, Moravia and Silesia), with the dominant color of Bohemia white and red and the supplementary colors of blue and black. The center of the shield carries on the blue crossbeam in gold the book bars N.S. The upper edge contains the motto "Vlast zadr" (Heal of the Homeland). The edge is black in memory of Silesia. Nevertheless, the blue cannot be recognized as the national colour of Moravia. B According to the law of 30.3.1920 No.252 there are three coats of arms, the small, medium and large.The small coat of arms is the Bohemian lion (silver on red shield) (three blue hills with the silver patriarchal cross on red ground), the middle a composition of the coat of Arms of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Slovakia and Carpathorus lands, the large coat of arm from all these and the other parts, Troppaus and Ratibors (for Hultschin) with a band on which stands the Hussite motto "The truth wins ". The disappearance of the different coats of arms required by the territorial changes necessitates a complete new creation of the coat of arms of the Protectorate, which could be composed, for example, of the Bohemian lion and Moravian eagle. Here, too, it is necessary, not only the protectorate.