STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 437, sig. 109-4/182

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nV 2. the course of the enrollments and the reverberation which the Ca e c ceca cealichkeit caused. The indiscriminate and straight-line measure that it had to often lead to inconsistencies and sharp contrasts in the relationship between individual cities and schools. Thanks to the discipline of the Czech people, the first days of the new school year were without any rest disturbances. But I cannot hide the fact that, in this difficult time, it cannot be conducive to the favorable development of the idea of the Empire, when disappointment and excitement are provoked in the people in the field of cultural life, in which self-government was guaranteed to them. Also, the confidence of the broad strata in my person must inevitably touch this process. I would be extremely grateful if Your Excellency would reconsider the question in this light. peiste The Ministry of Education will, on the basis of its figures, present parallel trains or at least a subsequent increase in the number of pupils in some institutions in order to mitigate the harshest consequences of the new regulation. I urge that this proposal be devoted to recklessness and to a favourable approach to it.