THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1785, sig. 109-5/13

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-20 - 2.5- ... but unchanged - remained in force, politically for months was finally hotly contested the law on the creation of state municipal secretaries, whose introduction was placed even among the smallest municipalities in the measurement of the tsdhechian administration. It would have offered; practically the opportunity to bring every sudeten German community leadership into Czech hands. When the law was finally made known with the date of 3 February 1939, it was to serve above all the accommodation. of the Czech Beanten who emigrated from the Sudeten German territories, and had been overrun in its political head by "the development. It has also never been carried out. An attempted approximation to authoritarian forms of state finally brings the Constitutional Enforcement Act v•m 15, just before the collapse of the state under the pressure of the already announced political events. December 1938, by which the legislative power practically aul the government, against which the president of the republic is transferred and this is authorized, with the approval of the government by simple decree, also to carry out constitutional changes. Only these few examples are to be identified as the most important of the Republic's comprehensive legislative process, although they also belong more in the field of politics than in the area of administration. The establishment of the Protectorate was also unaffected by the organisation - and functioning of the Czech administration, which was given some autonomy by the ruling of the leader as an advance payment for promised future loyalty, all that seemed necessary in the interests of the empire, was done by the rich's own administration in the protectorate, which built up from the authority of the Reich's protector as a central authority and from the Upper Land Councils as a lower level. However, the attitude of the Czechs and the special requirements of the German battle of fate brought about - 21