STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 643, sig. 109-4/391

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85 - 5 - ziamant. Our people, which means the ragödie Munchene with all consequences in moral, economic, etc. respects, experienced our people, who at that time saw themselves completely alone and experienced his own crucifixion, nevertheless remained honest and proud, maintained the psychic balance, his peste moral attitude, his confidence in the future and his inner unity. It was firmly and heroically pitiful against such an inhumane and barbaric adversary as the world does not know him any worse. Such a people cannot perish, cannot lose being sons and daughters of a soochic people is the peak of honor and pride among the best peoples of the world. Dicese's people are sure of the moral help of all the decent souls of the world and at the present moment it will shatter everything that the adversary has expanded in our homeland and will take revenge for all the crimes and beasts our adversary commits to this people. It will also tear down the wall, which was erected between Czechs and Slovaks by the enemy, and "will rise up the enemy after all the years of oppression and humiliation in its kind and will stand again where it stood in the best time of its history. Ladies and gentlemen, I assure you and our people that we will prove ourselves worthy in these struggles of this great and valiant people. " The chairman of the Council of State Rudolf Bechynët said, "We thank the President for his statement and I wisely feel that you all feel like I do, that from his mouth the voice of our whole people spoke to us, which was beaten and enslaved, but did not fall. I have the feeling that the voice of the gentile Czech people speaks in this way, which, although lost by a brutal laugh, will never, never, ever give up. In the spirit of our people, like the Greek people, lives a wonderful force. And finally, the Villè is alive and fighting for the Freiehti, which we feel raised from the speech of the President. The way of our people led through a whole series of wars and through no less than' 5 revolutions. Ten times we have shaken ourselves eleven times. By the arrivals of the years l938 wnd 39 we were beaten to the ground again, but we will rise una again. In us the song of the Czech state and its freeness always continues. The will to chew for political, economic progress lives on in us - we live for the restoration of greater freedom, our republic from the Giant Mountains to the Danube, from the Bohemian Forest to Jasina. We fight for this, that we will form a small section of the area, which will call itself world democracy. Fate has given us only twenty years of free life. If we were to praise each other, I can explain that we have well recorded ourselves in the history of the land register of the world. In these twenty years, Europs did not worry me, we did not give him the slightest trouble, as long as we had our foreign and domestic policy in our own hands, as far as we could act freely, so long we were a sure cornerstone in Europs' efforts to - 6 -