English Translation

- 4 - but also the private ones, because associations (e.g. the Association of Czechoslovak Officers) have often referred in their symbols to Slovakia, Silesia, etc.. The "Mehrisches Wappen" has been a red and white spotted eagle since the reign of the Luxembourgians in the Margraviate of Moravia (beginning of the 14th century). l462 the silver colour of the shaft was turned into gold by the Habsburg Emperor Friedrich at the request of a Moravian governor. Since that time the Moravian coat of arms has been a gold-red battered eagle in a blue field. The new coat of arm and the new colors have not always been adhered to, so that e.g. even in the Austrian empire's great coat of arms and the Austrian great imperial seal which is used: red and white shaft. At the beginning of the 19th century the privilege of l462 was used. A Mährischer Landtag of l848 has concluded: "The land of Moravia retains its former coat of arms, namely the red-gold eagle looking to the right, in the blue field. The national colors are gold- and red". (Explanations according to the Czech conversation lexion Ott 's, Volume XVII, ( 190l) page 677). In the middle and large coat of arms of the Czechoslovak Republic they returned to the pre-Habsburgian form of the red-silver shaft. This must be done in turn to take account of the Moravian country colours "gold-red". The large and small state seal contains the large and smaller coat of arm with the inscription " Republika Českoslo- venska ". They must be modified according to the new coat of arms.