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3 Participation of the population, including school youth, can only be described as mediocre with 3 ooo persons. The Czech translation of the speech of the district captain, which was reproduced by the commissioner of the police department in Pilgrams, reduced the impression of the celebration by its poor and monotonous mode of presentation. The following Czech statements by the Chairman of the Administrative Commission were generally echoed. However, Czech intellectuals said that they had already done and endured many things on orders, so they could not bring this commanding celebration out of peace either. In any case, the renaming will only be of short duration. Budweis:atdo doen ebLslyd Apart from the official Czech secondments of the schools, the autonomous offices and the protectorate railways, the celebrations took place mainly under German participation. At the station of Budweiz it could be observed that very many Czechs left the city. The celebration had a purely German character. Although the mayor in his speech repeatedly addressed the Czech population in very appropriate words, no translation of the speech in Czech language was given, which was consistently criticised by the Czech participants. A former Czech officer explained e.g. : "What should I do at this celebration, what do the Czechs have to do there at all, if the Germans do not lose a word for us." Also in the flag decoration of the city the protectorate flags were missing, as did the playing of the protectorary anthem, which was noted by the Czech with visible disappointment, after it had been learned before that in Tabor and in Pilsen the hymn was played. The single-language street name gave rise to a number of rumors. SA It was claimed that the post office had already been instructed not to deliver letters with the Czech address "Reinhard Heydrich-Ulice". bue gog TSW Czech to address that this was a further step towards Germani-TeoJeeUsUe e ETIS DRSUE net e elt DELCUEUNAPOO sierung. 9.)Beneschau: JE In Beneschau it was about the question whether the protectorate anthem should be played at the end of the celebration, about strong differences of opinion between the district captain and the local group leader 25885 b.w.