GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 711, sig. 110-4562

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5a 00777 drew our attention to the fact that when speaking with a greater degree of care and interest. The organization of the meeting in Tabor was very good, the visit of the rally was excellent. When the parade of the municipal police officers was taken off, and the police officer in charge of the police had to cancel, he called the police to the usual czech greeting "Pa-Pa" and moved some fingers of the raised hand. - At the subsequent reception at the town hall in Tabor and at lunch, neither B. one of the Czechs present touches the problem of the refugees. B. himself was only tired and long-winded stories about memories from his life, about the price ratios of the "good old times" etc. The local guarantor had to listen to such stories for hours on the way in the car. In Budweis, before the rally, the minister proudly took the report of the district captain there to Kemtnis, who spoke (in somewhat dazzling colors!) of the great willingness to sacrifice and hospitality of the Czech population towards the refugees. B. soon thought that for this South Bohemian population, perhaps as a thank you, it would be possible to bring about reliefs in agricultural controls. He gave his confidant, the official of the Ministry of the Interior P a l a t, who as a companion joined the trip, the order to immediately examine the question after his return to Prague and to write a corresponding letter to the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. The rally in Budweis himself was quite worthy of the visit, although for the presentation of Minister B. The same can be said as in Tabor. After a statement by Bienert, the two-day stay in Budweis represented a "positivum" for him insofar as he could spend two days in the house of his son-in-law with his very revered grandchildren. For the speech at the theater in Strakonitz at noon on 20.3.45, the presentation of the Minister B. is already mentioned. B. has spoken here the worst, - it may be said, whether intentionally or unintentionally - went away from the microphone attached to the speaker's desk, so that it was only understandable to the first rows of the hall, according to statements by some participants of the rally.