STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2141, sig. 109-8/24

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WV - 6 - wanted to listen, but he would come once and fulfill the innermost thoughts and desires. On 13.6.194o a member of the Salvation Army spoke to the Czechs in Karlsplatz in Prague and noticed that there was no reason to despair, even if they were clearly ill. Although some people on earth think that God is the same, he continued to say that there is only one Lord who is Christ "our King". The speaker was generously applauded by the surrounding listeners. In another speech, the listeners were asked to buy the Kralitzer Bible and to read the chapter of the two scrolls and their end in particular attentively; in many cases, songs of ambiguous content were sung in these public audiences and in locals. In Königgrätz, two girls recently sang a song, the contents of which were as follows: "God's long-suffering is soon to come to an end, soon he will send us freedom". The fact that all these words are interpreted only in the German-enemy sense is already evident from the fact that the listeners do not show any religious attitude in these devotions, but much more after the end of them visibly continue their path and lead political debates. The other work of the Salvation Army in the Protectorate also proves to be dangerous in various cases. in which the Salvation Army in Prague I, Bethlehems-gasse 7, maintains dubious elements without checking the identity documents of possible future possibilities; the persons asking for accommodation are already given accommodation on presentation of a birth certificate, so that it is generally said that in this home the scum of the Prague underworld gathers and resides. In Budweis, the newly appointed head of the "Corps" there, Wenceslas S o u č e k, has recently repeatedly expressed that despite the greatest difficulties, the Salvation Army in Budwies still receives funds from England through the headquarters in Prague.