STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2046, sig. 109-7/53

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72 Secret State Police Prague I, 4 October 194. State Police Headquarters Prague Bredauer Gaffe 18. Call: No. 300.41. B. = No. 3920/40 - II BM - Duco des Staa slekt is Please indicate in the reply the preferred symbol and date. beun Reichsp.ouekt in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: 24.OKT,1940 Tgb. No.: To the 4-group leader State Secretary K.H. Fr a n k , Prague Czernin-Palais. Subject: 28 October 1940, founding day of the former Czecho-Slovak Republic. Attachment: 1 photocopy. Jn Prague was found yesterday the first communist request for the celebration of this year's 28 October. It is an adhesive sheet which was glued to a house wall at the square of Peter the Liberator located in the district of Prague-Weinberge. The adhesive sheet bears the inscription "28. rijna - nekupujte noviny - stavkujte v lO hod. 1 minuta - nechodte do zabav". (On 28 October no newspapers buys, strikes a minute at lo clock, visits no pleasures). In addition, on the flight sheet there were communist signs sickle and hammer. Further requests for the 28. l0.l940 have not become known here so far. According to the reports received so far, special demonstrations are not planned by the CP, with the exception of a stylistic commemoration, since in communist circles it is considered that the present time is not suitable for rallies against the German foa rule. Nlmn St. S. MB31C.