STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1998, sig. 109-7/5 Page 101 · 101 of 151
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1998, sig. 109-7/5
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- 2 - 98 In his two comments, the "Ceské Slovo" stresses that the article of the Secretary of State has generated the most lively interest of the Czech population. It is the legionaries in the most important places, the "tops", but by no means a persecu- tion towards the small employees who have not dealt with politics in the spirit of this legionary clique. It is about the politics of the double face. Everyone must honestly carry out the voluntary cooperation with the Reich and not perform a naive comedy of cooperation. Anyone who does not honestly think that cooperation should rather let it go, step aside and not stand in the way of the people in their new historical development. Those in important places will be reluctant to withdraw from them, but with their voluntary departure they will have to calculate or with a less honourable way of their removal.• "A-Zet" claims that the legionaries formed a wall between the German and Czech nations. This made the situation of the Czech people considerably more difficult. In the circles of the legionaries the centre and the spreader of whisper propaganda were seen, in these circles there were also the most Jewish friends who formed a bastion of the old party system and did not want to recognize the new political facts. Now that the Secretary of State has referred to this activity of the Legionary Clique, it is up to the Czech authorities to deduce from his revelations the conclusions in such a way that not all the Czech people suffer. "Národni Politika"_ notes that it is now a question of fate of the Czech people, which consists of whether the Legionnaire spirit, as it has been understood in recent years, could serve a happy future for the Czech People. Every war ends and it is already time to put an end to the anti-German struggle, whose bearers are the legionaries. They represent the corporalization of the anti German struggle. The article by Mr. State Secretary proves that the future of the Czech people is at play. In this context, the paper refers once again to the speech by Dr. Goebbels addressed the Czech cultural workers, in which he demanded that the Czech people still have to decide during the war. "Národní Práce" regrets in their two comments that those tendencies, whose elimination the cardinal demand of the German authorities and the condition of a happy future of the Czech People in the