THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1583, sig. 109-4/1337

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42 - 5 - MOO Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia used to allow Count Zdenko Radslav Kinsky from Chlumetz (ownership under compulsory administration) to travel to the Principality of Liechten- stein in order to participate in the marriage of the reigning prince Franz Josef II. Furthermore, considering that the most significant representatives of the Bohemian-Moravian nobility have maintained direct relations with Otto von Habsburg up to the last few years before the establishment of the protectorate, an assessment of these circles with regard to their resistance, even though it is not expressed in very clear forms today, cannot be considered seriously enough. In 1936, Prince Franz Schwarzenberg and Count Eduard Czernin visited Otto von Habsburg personally in Sternokezeel, and the same Prince Schwarzenberg repeatedly tried to make himself known in public life in Bohemia and Moravia. As we know, from the end of 1939 to 1941, the head of the youth organization of the "National Community", and as it has become known recently, is also intended to bring him back on the political stage as the successor of the recently arrested Vlajka head Rys. It is also clear that Prince Schwarzenberg is in a special relationship of trust with the President of the Republic Hácha, where he recently visited Lana Castle for about 10 days, the ultimate effects of these entanglements are not yet discernible, but should certainly not remain unimportant and be harmful to the German interests in Bohemian and Moravian. If the fight against this influence of the Bohemian-Mihrian nobility, which is detrimental to Germanism in Bohemia and Moravia, is to be successful, it will be absolutely necessary not only to narrow down the Böhmisch-Märischen nobility in its positions according to the well-known line, but also to take any action by these circles, even if they are carried out by the most important personalities of the German public life, to fail: a sustainability or alms of consideration in this regard would only encourage the nobility to take the view that: