STATE SECRETARY FOR THE REAL PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 500, sig. 109-4/246

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In this respect, Rys also considers that the whole matter was initiated by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and that it was due to the influence of the Minister B e r t s c h by ministers (M or r a v e c or the Youth Curatorium). Rys does not want to re-occupy the E0 post of Head of the Main Organisation, which has been released by the Polivka's obligation to work, because it is pointless, since the successor would also be obliged to work again. In Czech circles, it is also widely believed that the work of the Vlajka functionaries is in fact to be traced back to the intention of the German authorities that, before the revenge of their own national d'a daaan events on the war scene, the Germans were about to face a threat. doareb Rys sees the present situation of the Vlajka very pessimistic. Of the 25 business premises that were once available to the Vlajka in their Prague office, 3 remained for him. According to his own statements, he employs only three female assistants, since the other employees are partly taken away from him by service obligations, partly by state police arrests, and the work is impossible. Through the FTS intervention of the Germans he allegedly sees himself at the end of his strength. As announced from a telephone call from Do- zent K l i m e n t to Minister Moravec on 14.11.42, Rys is to be received in the next few days by President Há c h a. Rys has asked for such a reception because he wishes to thank the President of the State personally for the alleged dismissal or pardon of his arrested followers. Mo- ravec has been very excited to Kliment about this intentional reception of the Rys and sees in it an ea deliberate advance of his opponents. B US The "National Fascist Community" (NOF) is in recent months from the initiative Gajdas again